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and an assassination attempt with the Novichok nerve 
agent on August 20, 2020; 
Whereas investigations conducted by Bellingcat, the Insider, 
Der Spiegel, and multiple governments found that the 
same unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the 
Russian Federation responsible for poisoning Mr. 
Navalny was responsible for poisoning Russian activists 
Vladimir 
Kara-Murza, 
Timur 
Kuashev, 
Ruslan 
Magomedragimov, and Nikita Isayev; 
Whereas upon his decision to return to the Russian Federa-
tion in 2021 after recovering abroad from the FSB as-
sassination attempt, Mr. Navalny was sentenced and im-
prisoned on politically motivated charges; 
Whereas Mr. Navalny’s 2021 arrest and imprisonment led to 
mass demonstrations in support of Mr. Navalny, in which 
authorities detained an estimated 11,000 protestors; 
Whereas, on February 17, 2021, the European Court of 
Human Rights issued a ruling finding that Mr. Navalny’s 
rights had been violated and demanding his immediate 
release; 
Whereas after a meeting with President Putin in June 2021, 
President Biden vowed that Russia would face ‘‘dev-
astating consequences’’ if Mr. Navalny were to die in 
prison; 
Whereas 
Mr. 
Navalny 
condemned 
Vladimir 
Putin’s 
unprovoked, unjustified, and illegal full-scale invasion of 
Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022; 
Whereas President Putin has further repressed Russian citi-
zens who have expressed opposition to his full-scale inva-
sion of Ukraine, including a March 2022 law signed by 
President Putin criminalizing the distribution of informa-
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tion contradicting the Russian government’s claims about 
the invasion of Ukraine and mandating up to 15 years 
in prison for such so-called ‘‘offenses’’; 
Whereas, during a court proceeding in Moscow on May 24, 
2022, Mr. Navalny declared Russia’s war on Ukraine as 
‘‘built on lies’’; 
Whereas Mr. Navalny was imprisoned in the IK–6 prison col-
ony in the Vladimir region, a facility widely and credibly 
documented by former prisoners and watchdog organiza-
tions for its systemic mistreatment of prisoners and the 
widespread use of inhumane practices including torture; 
Whereas, in late 2023, Mr. Navalny was transferred from 
IK–6 prison colony to the remote Artic IK–3 prison col-
ony of Kharp in grossly inhumane conditions in the 
Yamalo-Nenets region; 
Whereas throughout his detention period, credible media 
sources reported that Mr. Navalny was subjected to dan-
gerous practices and systematic abuse by Russian prison 
authorities, including the denial of medical care and tor-
ture; 
Whereas, on February 16, 2024, Russian authorities an-
nounced the death of Mr. Navalny in IK–3 prison colony; 
and 
Whereas, on February 16, 2024, President Biden affirmed 
that ‘‘Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death’’: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the politically motivated killing of 
Alexei Navalny by the Russian Federation; 
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(2) establishes that the Government of the Rus-
sian Federation is fully responsible for Mr. 
Navalny’s death given its documented attempt to as-
sassinate him on August 20, 2020, and systemic 
abuse and negligence of his health and safety 
throughout his imprisonment; 
(3) expresses solidarity with Mr. Navalny’s 
widow, Yulia Navalnaya, his family, attorneys, and 
colleagues of Mr. Navalny, as well as all prisoners of 
conscience in the Russian Federation imprisoned 
and subjected to state-sponsored violence and intimi-
dation for exercising their fundamental freedoms of 
speech, assembly, and belief; 
(4) condemns the Russian Federation’s contin-
ued imprisonment of thousands of prisoners on po-
litically motivated charges, including numerous 
United States citizens such as Evan Gershkovich, 
Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva; 
(5) urges the United States Government and 
other allied governments to work to secure the im-
mediate release of all political prisoners in the Rus-
sian Federation; and 
(6) calls on the Secretaries of State and Treas-
ury to impose additional sanctions on Russian au-
thorities who played a role in the killing of Mr. 
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Navalny in coordination with United States allies 
and partners. 
Æ 
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