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Navalny was killed by the West, which betrayed itself by publicly announcing his death before it was ever medically attested, according to false narratives circulated in Romania.
Alexei Navalny’s death generated reactions across the world, from statements of dissent and criticism against the Kremlin made by Western leaders and international organizations, to silent protests of ordinary people in front of Russian Federation embassies in the great capitals of the world. The protest actions also stirred Russia’s response, in the form of an official statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, delivered by spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who said that the West’s reaction is “self-incriminating”, suggesting that the leader of the Russian opposition was somehow tied to NATO and its “aggression” against Russia. The same rhetorical line can be found in other narratives published in Romania or in Romanian-language media. The people who promote them include controversial figures who in the past have supported conspiracy theories and narratives similar to those spread by Russian propaganda.
The collective West announced Navalny's death ahead of Russia: a false narrative stemming from a confusion regarding UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and Moscow standard time (UTC+3)
A screenshot of a Russian Wikipedia page is circulating on several Romanian Telegram channels, where the official time of Navalny's death is shown as 2:17 PM., although the article was published at 12:35 PM. Conspiracy theorists were quick to interpret that as evidence that the West not only assassinated Navalny, but also mistakenly published the announcement of his death before it actually took place.
The conclusion is obviously wrong, the time of Navalny's death being standard Moscow time (as specified on the page itself), and the time the article was created was Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, the main time standard used globally to regulate clocks and time. In fact, the page was published at 11:24 UTC, almost an hour earlier than the post claims.
As the difference between Moscow time and UTC is 3 hours, it is easy to deduce that the page was created at 14:24 Moscow time, i.e. 7 minutes after Navalny was officially declared dead.
Besides, Ria Novosti published the news of Navalny’s death at 11:21 UTC, whereas Reuters had published the news at 11:20 UTC (2:20 PM Moscow time), quoting the Interfax newsfeed. Therefore, the information had been made public prior to the creation of the Wikipedia article.
Western agents infiltrated a Russian maximum security prison
In an article published by Cozmin Gușa, a controversial / analyst / consultant / businessman, who has long been fostering false narratives and has been described by Romanian media as a close sympathizer / agent of influence of Russia, the narrative launched by Zakharova is amplified and justified by Putin's lack of direct interest in killing Navalny, given that the Kremlin leader is credited by polls with over 80% of voting intentions in next month's presidential election. Moreover, Guşă further argues that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and the Crimean Bridge were “false flag operations” carried out by the West. In the said article, Guşă also states that Putin was not interested in a new international scandal, especially since his image has very much improved after the interview he gave to Tucker Carlson, although most of the international reactions to the mock interview conducted by the American journalist were as negative as possible. Deliberately or not, Cozmin Gușă forgets to mention other similar cases where opponents of the Putin regime were murdered, such as that of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya or politician Boris Nemtsov.
Russian rhetoric and its typical “whataboutism” tactics
In turn, pro-Russian blogger Dan Diaconu published on his Telegram channel his own viewpoint on Navalny’s death, accusing the civilized world of not having the same reaction of support for the victims, as in the cases of John McAfee (took his life in a Spanish prison, awaiting extradition to the USA, where he was to be tried for tax evasion), Jeffrey Epstein (took his life in prison, while he was being tried for pimping, pedophilia and human trafficking) and Julian Assange (currently arrested in Great Britain, awaiting extradition to the United States, where he is to be tried, among other things, for several cyber-crimes). What Diaconu fails to mention in his article is that, in the first two instances, their death was officially declared suicide by a team of forensic pathologists, and, unlike Navalny, both American citizens had been imprisoned for criminal offenses instead of political reasons.
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