"I am distressed by the deteriorating state of Navalny’s health and the apparent lack of satisfactory diagnosis and medical treatment," the UN's special rapporteur on torture Alice Edwards said. His supporters have said he was suffering from significant stomach pain in jail, which they claimed could be a sign of a slow acting poison. The Russian opposition leader is serving combined sentences of 11 and a half years for fraud and contempt of court charges, which he claims were created to silence him. The United Nations has called on Russia to provide Alexei Navalny with "urgent and comprehensive" medical care after reports that his health was deteriorating. Kaliningrad was cut off from Moscow when Lithuania became independent during the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. "We know that throughout history Poland has slipped from time to time into this madness of hatred towards Russians," he told a briefing.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the decision "bordered on madness".
However, Poland has said Kalinin's connection to the 1940 Katyn massacre, which saw thousands of Polish officers executed by Soviet forces, had negative connotations.Īs a result, Warsaw has decided to call the city Krolewiec - the name it had when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave that is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, was known as Koenigsberg until it was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two and renamed to honour politician Mikhail Kalinin. Poland's decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad is a "hostile act", the Kremlin has said, as ties between the two countries continue to fray.
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