Alexei Navalny, Russia's best-known opposition figure, who recovered from poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin, has died in an Arctic prison colony, authorities say.
Navalny, 47, one of Putin’s most visible and persistent critics, was being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a “special regime”.
Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russian opposition against President Vladimir Putin, died Friday in prison at the age of 47, officials said. The Russian Federal Prison Service said Navalny felt unwell after a walk and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived and its crew tried to rehabilitate him but was unsuccessful, it added. The death of…
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