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Russian judge died in suspicious circumstances after 'apology' to Putin's political foe
Russian judge who privately apologised to a jailed opposition leader of Russian parliament and later died in "suspicious" circumstances has been released.Judge Natalya Repnikova, 50, jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February of last year and made a private omission to the jailed leader in sentencing.The revelation comes from Navalny in a new court case, where he revealed Repnikova had passed him a note expressing her remorse at his initial imprisonment sentencing.Along with expressing her remorse for the jailed opposition leader in a note she passed over to him, Repnikova added that she believed he was a "brave man". Soon after, Repnikova was dead, apparently dying after a bout of coronavirus, but the jailed opposition leader has his doubts over her cause of death.
