Russia's prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was 47.
Russia's prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was 47.Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia's prison agency said. He was 47.
Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the politician's team had no confirmation of his death so far and that his lawyer was traveling to the town where he was held. The remote region is notorious for long and severe winters. Kharp is about 100 kilometers from Vorkuta, whose coal mines were part of the Soviet gulag prison-camp system.
Navalny was born in Butyn, about 40 kilometers outside Moscow. He received a law degree from People's Friendship University in 1998 and did a fellowship at Yale in 2010. The day before the sentence, Navalny had registered as a candidate for Moscow mayor. The opposition saw his release as the result of large protests in the capital of his sentence, but many observers attributed it to a desire by authorities to add a tinge of legitimacy to the mayoral election.
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