On March 9, The Insider newspaper published on its website materials accompanied by two photographs of Alexei Navalny after his death. The memo is titled, “The Black Mirror channel on Telegram published the results of the official examination of Navalny. They deny the official cause of death.”
Following publication, Navalny’s associates condemned The Insider.
“What they did today is a level of bestiality and eating of corpses unprecedented in history.” male President of the International Anti-Corruption Foundation Maria Pevchikh. She too He added: “Published by an anonymous telegram channel”, yes. And after a few minutes of publication in a channel with 10 (ten) subscribers, the most hellish pictures end up on the front page of what was considered a decent media outlet. With comments taken in advance.
“This is an unimaginable shame, and I simply cannot believe it. Eating corpses is the norm.” He said Employee of the investigation department of FBK Georgy Alburov.
“This is no longer journalism. This is meanness. This is not how journalists work. This is how scoundrels in the Kremlin work.” male Former director of FBK Ivan Zhdanov.
“I am absolutely shocked by what The Insider did. Please do not click on or watch this.” He said FBK employee Ruslan Shaveddinov.
to update. Editorial from the inside I mentionedWhich removed from its material the photo of Navalny on the forensic expert’s table. The newspaper apologized for publishing the photo. “The Insider previously published a photo of Navalny’s face (and only his face) from forensic examination materials, since this photo is important evidence that the materials are real. But given that this photo could traumatize Alexei’s loved ones, we decided to replace it. We deeply and sincerely apologize to everyone who was psychologically traumatized by this photo,” the newspaper said.
On March 9, the Anti-Corruption Foundation published the results of Alexei Navalny’s autopsy, which was conducted by forensic experts from the Russian Ministry of Health. As Pevchikh said, FBK received the document a year and a half ago, but did not publish it because “the content does not meet any ethical standards, even minimally.” According to Pevchikh, a number of media outlets will publish this document this week under the guise of a “sensational publication.”
As proven by experts from laboratories of Western countries, Alexei Navalny was poisoned in a Russian colony with epibatidine, a tree frog poison. The researchers reached this conclusion after studying samples of Navalny’s vital materials.