Putin Promotes Prison Official Linked to Navalny's Mistreatment Days After Dissident's Death

Putin promoted Valery Boyarinev, deputy head of prison service, just days after Navalny died in prison. Boyarinev accused of tormenting Navalny behind bars.

Boyarinev personally ordered limits on Navalny's ability to buy food in prison. Navalny wrote that food was used against him in prison.

Promotion seen as Putin's "blatant reward for torture" of Navalny by ally Ivan Zhdanov.

Other prison officials also promoted, but Boyarinev played special role in Navalny's imprisonment.

Navalny said officials would make him pay for food he couldn't eat while in isolation, like throwing out expiring boiled eggs.