From the Metro newspaper:
PUTIN PLANNED MURDER DOWN TO THE SECOND
Vladimir Putin planned the killing of rival Alexei Navalny in minute detail, say supporters-pointing to a series of sinister events.
The anti-corruption campaigner died at a bleak jail in the Arctic Circle two days after officers of the FSB intelligence service visited to dismantle CCTV and listening devices, it is said. Critics pointed to the speed of officials' announcement of his death on Friday-saying a prepared statement was put out within two minutes. Four minutes later, state-controlled social media claimed the cause of death was a blood clot. And just seven minutes after that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was giving details to the media.
"This rapid timing can only mean one thing," human rights group Gulagu.net said. "Everything was pre-planned and co-ordinated. Minute by minute. Second by second."
Yesterday the 47-year-old's body was finally located at a mortuary 30 miles from the remote Polar Wolf penal colony in Kharp, where he died-two days after his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, 69, arrived to be told it was not there.
First informed he died of a blood clot, she was later handed a death certificate blaming "sudden death syndrome".
News outlet Novaya Gazeta quoted a medic as saying the body showed bruising probably "from cardiac massage", adding: "So they did try to resuscitate him, and he probably died of cardiac arrest. But nobody is saying why he had a cardiac arrest." Four years ago the anti-corruption campaigner was poisoned with nerve agent Novichok, then given 30 years in jail on his return to Moscow.
Aide Kira Yarmysh insisted: "Alexei was murdered. The whole world knows the president of Russia personally gave this order." Dozens were arrested across Russia as they left flowers at shrines.
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has promised sanctions, and US President Joe Biden directly blamed Mr Putin.
