The Council of the European Union had called for the independent review, saying Russia “must allow an independent and transparent international investigation."

Kremlin officials rejected on Tuesday a call for an independent postmortem examination on the remains of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The Council of the European Union had on Monday called for the independent review, saying Russia “must allow an independent and transparent international investigation into circumstances of his sudden death.”

“Mr Navalny’s unexpected and shocking death is yet another sign of the accelerating and systematic repression in Russia,” the council said in a statement.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      In 20 years we’ve gone from Republicans hating Russia to the last Republican president figuratively fellating him almost weekly.

      The mind boggles.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        I think Jon Stewart said it best - the enemy went from Communism to “wokeness”, and Putin is a paragon of the “anti-woke” movement.