Opposition leader, 47, was being held in jail about 40 miles north of Arctic CircleGlobal reaction to Alexei Navalny’s death – latest updatesThe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country’s prison service has said, in what supporters and western officials have called a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin.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”. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Roth and Helen Sullivan
Publish date : 2024-02-16 13:50:23
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Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison
