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Maria Pevchikh, the chairwoman of Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, said in a video statement published on Monday that Vladimir Putin killed Navalny because Navalny’s team had “secured a decision on his exchange.”
In early February, Pevchikh said, Vladimir Putin was given an offer to exchange Alexey Navalny and “two American citizens” for ex-FSB officer Vadim Krasikov, who killed the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Germany in 2019.
“I received confirmation that the negotiations were at their final stage on the evening of February 15,” Pevchikh said. “On February 16, Alexey was killed.”
“After the start of the war, it became clear that we needed to get Navalny out of prison at any cost — urgently,” Pevchikh said. Because Alexey Navalny is a Russian citizen, she explained, his team decided to seek a “humanitarian exchange,” which allows foreign countries to release Russian spies in exchange for political prisoners.
While Navalny’s associates compiled a list of Russian political prisoners whose release they would seek, Pevchikh said, investigative journalist Christo Grozev “searched for and identified” Russian spies in prison abroad.
“It took us two whole years to implement this plan. It could have taken less,” she said:
Had there been desire and political will, this would have been a matter of months, not years. But there wasn’t enough desire or will. Enormous efforts, endless persuasion, weeks of waiting for responses, dozens of trips, and hundreds of unanswered calls. American and German officials nodded understandingly. They talked about how important it was to help Navalny and other political prisoners, shook our hands, made promises, and did nothing.
The team ultimately made progress with the help of influential people who led “unofficial negotiations with Putin’s thugs,” sometimes risking their lives and careers, Pevchikh said.
The plan finally “received approval” in the spring of 2023, she continued — but this was followed by months of hesitation and miscommunication from various players. By December 2023, however, the plan was “back in action.” According to Pevchikh, there were “traces” of these “near-negotiations” in the media, including in U.S. news reports about Putin’s alleged desire to secure Krasikov’s release, as well as in Putin’s allusion to the topic in his interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this month.
“[Putin] could have gotten [Krasikov],” Pevchikh said. “But only if he gave up Navalny.”
After learning of Navalny’s death, Pevchikh said, she was told that it was Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich who ultimately delivered the proposal for the exchange to Vladimir Putin. When she contacted Abramovich for comment, he neither confirmed nor denied having served as an informal negotiator in the talks.
“I tell you this story so that you have an answer to the question of why Navalny was killed specifically now,” Pevchikh said. “It was made clear to Putin that the only way to get Krasikov would be to exchange him for Navalny.” She continued:
“I can’t tolerate Navalny being free,” thought Putin. “And since they’re willing to exchange Krasikov in principle, I just need to get rid of the bargaining chip. Then I’ll offer someone else when the time comes.”
在纳瓦尔尼狱中离奇逝世10天后，俄当局最终将遗体交还给亲属，与此同时，纳瓦尔尼反腐基金会主席Maria Pevchikh透露，在纳瓦尔尼生前团队曾积极运作通过与在德国被捕的前FSB特工Vadim Krasikov（2019在德国谋杀前车臣指挥官被捕）进行交换来营救纳瓦尔尼。
Maria Pevchikh称其团队已经努力运作两年，并在2023年末取得重大进展，她称谈判进程在2.15已到达最后阶段，这是纳瓦尔尼逝世前一天（注：2.15纳瓦尔尼曾视频出庭）。她称此前普京在卡尔森的访谈中曾提到Vadim Krasikov，这可以充当佐证。她还称是透过俄罗斯富豪阿布与普京交涉，但阿布不置可否。
Maria Pevchikh称普京认为既然交换Vadim Krasikov的提案被同意，那么他同样可以用其他人交换，而并不需要纳瓦尔尼，而且普京无法容忍纳瓦尔尼重获自由，这可能是普京除掉纳瓦尔尼的动机（之一）。
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