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NEW YORK, April 27 /TASS/. US intelligence agencies have found no evidence of Russian leadership involvement in the death of Alexei Navalny, The Wall Street Journal reports citing its sources.
According to these sources, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the State Department's intelligence unit have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably did not order Navalny to be killed."
"Some European intelligence services have been informed of the US view," the paper notes.
Earlier, Putin told reporters that shortly before Navalny's death in prison, he had been offered to exchange him "for some people imprisoned in Western countries." According to the Russian president, he agreed without fully listening to what the other person had to say. The only counter-condition Putin says he put forward was that Navalny was not allowed to return to Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, declined to specify for whom Navalny might be replaced.
The branch of the Russian Federal Prison Service in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region announced on 16 February that Navalny had died in a penal colony. According to the prison authorities, he became ill after a walk and fainted. Medics immediately arrived at the scene, but their more than 30-minute resuscitation failed.
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