Putin promoted deputy director of FSIN after Navalny’s death

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of colonel-general of the internal service to Valery Boyarynev, deputy director of the FSIN.

The decree on promotion was signed on February 19, three days after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the colony.

Fellow oppositionist Ivan Zhdanov called Boyarinev’s promotion “Putin’s open reward for torture.” “Boyarynev personally oversaw the torture of Alexei Navalny in prison. Restricting Alexei’s food accounts, like all other tortures, is a personal order of Boyarynov under the FSIN,” wrote Zhdanov.

Zhdanov published Boyarinev’s letter to the Ukrainian Federal Police Service in the Vladimir region, after which he was banned from spending more than five thousand rubles a month on food in the colony where Navalny was imprisoned until December 2023. Navalny spent a significant part of his time in the SHIZO, where food cannot be ordered at all.

In addition to Boyarinev, three more employees of the FSIN were promoted by Putin, as well as dozens of employees from other departments.

According to the FSIN, opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was in the “Polar Wolf” special regime colony, died on the afternoon of February 16 “after a walk.” A few days before his death, he was sent to the SHIZO for the 27th time with even harsher conditions of detention than in ordinary cells. Supporters of the politician believe that he was killed. Navalny’s body has not yet been released or shown to his relatives. The politician’s wife Yulia promised to continue her husband’s work.