The Kremlin stated on Thursday it was not following the state of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s well being, after studies from Navalny aides that the Kremlin critic’s well being was failing.

In a name with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred questions on Navalny to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service.

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