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The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has stated that the death of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny in the Russian prison is a call for everyone to see authoritarianism as a willingness to kill those who oppose the captured power.
A local department of Russia's Federal Prison Service said Friday at noon that Navalny had died in prison.
Kurti, who is participating in the Security Conference in Munich, Germany, wrote on the social network X: " The reported death of Navalny is a call for everyone to see authoritarianism as such; a willingness to kill and torture anyone who threatens the firmly held power ", writes REL.
Kosovo and Russia do not have any relations, since Moscow, as a big supporter of Serbia, is one of the biggest opponents of Kosovo's independence.
On Saturday, February 17, Kosovo celebrates the 16th anniversary of Independence, after declaring it from Serbia in 2008.
Since Russia started the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kosovo has taken all the sanctioning measures that the European Union and the United States of America have taken against it.
Russia's Federal Prison Service in the Yamalo-Nenets region said on Friday that Navalny felt ill after the walk on February 16 and then lost consciousness and died after receiving medical attention.
" This regime will seriously regret what it has done ," Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said in 2019.
" All measures to bring him back to life were taken, but they did not produce positive results. The ambulance doctors pronounced the prisoner dead. The cause of death is being determined ," the Russian Service said in a statement, which could not be independently confirmed.
But Navalny's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, wrote on the X social network that the Kremlin critic's team has no confirmation of his death.
Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny's wife, said Putin and his associates would not get away with impunity if her husband's reported death was confirmed.
She called on the international community to fight the "terrible regime" in Russia together, speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
" I don't know if we should believe the terrible news. We cannot trust Putin and his Government. But if this is true, I would like Putin and all his staff, everyone around him, his Government and his friends, to know that they will be punished for what they have done to our country, with my family and with my husband", said Yulia Navalnaya.
Reports of Navalny's death have prompted outrage and condemnation from world leaders who have said the Kremlin critic has paid the "highest price" for his courage to speak out against the country's leadership.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said that he does not feel surprised but "angry" after the reported death of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, adding that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is responsible for his death.
Navalny, a vocal critic of Putin, has been held in a Russian prison since 2021 on charges that many have described as politically motivated.
In August, Navalny was found guilty of founding and financing an extremist organization, which he has always denied, and was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison.
He had already been sentenced to nine years in prison for breach of parole, fraud and contempt of court.
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