Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead, prison service says

Source: Politico | February 16, 2024 | Sergey Goryashko and Eva Hartog

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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