Ivan Zhdanov, an exiled associate of Aleksei Navalny, on September 3 posted an official letter by prosecutors in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region that said they have canceled a decision by investigators in August against launching a probe into the late Russian opposition politician's death. The letter said the case has been sent to the Investigative Committee. In August, Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said Russian authorities had refused to open a probe into the death of her husband. The outspoken Kremlin critic died in February in an Arctic prison while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that he had rejected as politically motivated.
