US Agencies Say Putin Didn't Order Navalny's February Death: WSJ

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10. Prison conditions are dismal at best

The rations do not provide enough calories to sustain someone performing hard labor and there exist extremely limited access to health care in the russian prison system. Additionally, many prisons are sweltering hot during the summer and extremely frigid during the winter.

Moving him to Siberia was almost certainly to isolate him from the world, and no one in power was going to shed a tear if he accidentally died in custody.