Putin’s most significant opponent collapsed while taking a walk in his prison near the Arctic Circle.
Alexei Navalny, long seen as the most significant political opponent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison on Friday, the federal prison service announced.
Navalny was held in a high security prison in Yamal near the Arctic Circle.
The death of the 47-year-old comes a month before a presidential election in which Putin is set to extend his more than two-decade rule and consolidate his grip on the country.
“It’s obvious” that Putin killed him, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
European governments were also quick to allude to Putin’s hand in the death. “Alexei Navalny paid with his life for his resistance to a system of oppression,” French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said on X. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk´y also said that Navalny had been “imprisoned and tortured to death for standing up to Putin.” that Navalny had been “imprisoned and tortured to death for standing up to Putin.”
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🚨 BREAKING: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison, the federal prison service announced.
Updates here: https://t.co/xMkqnpa2V8 pic.twitter.com/1IvnQaZtD7
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) February 16, 2024
Alexei Navalny, long seen as the most significant political opponent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison today, the Russian prison authority announced.
Here is their statement on what they claim happened.
🔗 https://t.co/hdyHucVv94 pic.twitter.com/zp1ChonBA0
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) February 16, 2024
Harris says Russia to blame for Navalny’s death https://t.co/wafXn4eg4R
— POLITICO (@politico) February 16, 2024
Former ambassador to Russia: "Putin killed Navalny, let’s be crystal clear" https://t.co/zjDvJ0uRFv pic.twitter.com/J9ijN8ZQFu
— The Hill (@thehill) February 16, 2024
"i am asking everyone who is here to unite and help punish the russian regime" – alexei navalny's wife yulia at #msc2024 pic.twitter.com/KynPzkdTij
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 16, 2024
Alexei Navalny stood up to Putin and his Russian cronies, and he dies a hero for freedom’s cause.
All Americans must be clear eyed about Putin’s ambitions. We should endeavor to make Putin a global outcast.https://t.co/e4grFabnsY
— Senator Todd Young (@SenToddYoung) February 16, 2024
Question: In your interview with Putin, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations.
Tucker Carlson: "…Leadership requires killing people…Press restriction is universal in the United States."pic.twitter.com/vHPMZPCnSn
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) February 16, 2024
Before Twitter, it took hard work to figure out who the world's dumbest people were. Now they just come out and tell you. https://t.co/VclvK4SBxe
— Christian Schneider (@Schneider_CM) February 16, 2024
When he's right, he's right https://t.co/mDxhj40rDp
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 16, 2024
A global wave of outrage has followed the announcement of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death.
Here is how leading politicians reacted to the news🧵https://t.co/kdm4MflkoS
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) February 16, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Alexei Navalny’s reported death underscores the “weakness and rot” at the heart of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s system https://t.co/eOlcAwlXuF pic.twitter.com/iUgqYotAWi
— The Hill (@thehill) February 16, 2024
Navalny in final message: "You’re not allowed to give up" https://t.co/Uf3VUQOTsk pic.twitter.com/G9nU1r7it2
— The Hill (@thehill) February 16, 2024A clear and brave message from @navalny in case the regime should kill him. pic.twitter.com/zOEoFZheEG
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) February 16, 2024
Whatever happened to Navalny it was always Putin's intention that he should die, like all the other opposition figures Putin threw into prison after his goons failed to murder them. Let's not get distracted from that with a debate on exactly how he died, murder is the system.
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) February 16, 2024
Never a critical word for Putin. https://t.co/kwsZXypoKZ
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 16, 2024
Even the men are crying https://t.co/lOC62jeanA
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 16, 2024
State employees remove flowers laid for @Navalny in Yekaterinburg. Around Russia, police have been cordoning off memorials, dispersing mourners & arresting people with signs pic.twitter.com/k0NjE3z30K
— Alec Luhn (@AlecLuhn) February 16, 2024
Russians in Moscow are lining up to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny at a memorial to Gulag victims outside the FSB headquarters.
Given the extent to which the Kremlin has suppressed all dissent since invading Ukraine, this is a not insignificant crowd. https://t.co/L805SmdZPk
— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 16, 2024
This is same Russia @TuckerCarlson praises as so much better than the U.S. by the way. https://t.co/mI1hoNT6uK
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 16, 2024
"Putin killed Navalny. Let's be crystal clear about that… Putin killed Navalny because he was the one opposition leader in Russia that Putin feared the most."
— @McFaul on the death of his friend, Alexei Navalnyhttps://t.co/f2Q0xFolwU pic.twitter.com/NN0czScNo6
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 16, 2024
Alexei Navalny has just died in a Russian prison — joining a long line of Putin opponents and critics to meet “mysterious” ends.
He was imprisoned after forming the most effective political movement against Putin and exposing the corruption in his inner circle.
While some… https://t.co/wV1uuAgXFh
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) February 16, 2024
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