Russia's opposition leader and most prominent Putin critic Alexei Navalny "lost consciousness" and died, Russian officials have said. Navalny was serving a prison sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony.
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has died, prison officials in the Yamal-Nenets region said on Friday.
The 47-year-old was Russia’s foremost opposition leader, winning a huge following with his criticism of corruption under Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was not clear if Navalny had suffered a blood clot rupture, as mass media began to report.
He has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “madman” and said the ruling party in Russia was full of “crooks and thieves.”
Over the years, Navalny has faced physical attacks, repeated arrests, investigations, and criminal proceedings, which he claims to be politically motivated.
However, with Navalny staying in Germany for several months after his release from the hospital, Russian authorities warned he was in violation of probation terms of an earlier court case and threatened to arrest him upon return.
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Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has died, prison officials in the Yamal-Nenets region said on Friday.
The 47-year-old was Russia’s foremost opposition leader, winning a huge following with his criticism of corruption under Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was not clear if Navalny had suffered a blood clot rupture, as mass media began to report.
He has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “madman” and said the ruling party in Russia was full of “crooks and thieves.”
Over the years, Navalny has faced physical attacks, repeated arrests, investigations, and criminal proceedings, which he claims to be politically motivated.
However, with Navalny staying in Germany for several months after his release from the hospital, Russian authorities warned he was in violation of probation terms of an earlier court case and threatened to arrest him upon return.
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