(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (KUNA) — US President Joe Biden said he was “both not surprised and outraged by the news” about the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny at a Russian jail on Friday morning.
“He (Navalny) bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence and all the bad things that the Putin government was doing.
“In response, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin had him poisoned. He had him arrested. He had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes. He sentenced him to prison. He was held in isolation. Even all that didn’t stop him from calling out Putin’s lies,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
“Even in prison he was a powerful voice for the truth, which is kind of amazing when you think about it. And he could have lived safely in exile after the assassination attempt on him in 2020, which nearly killed…
