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Putin's critic Alexia Navalny is dead (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by medicsofanarchy to c/[email protected]

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Some sources suggest he was taking a walk and suddenly fell to the ground. Very mysterious. Guess they ran out of windows.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison inside the Arctic Circle, the prison service said.

Seen as President Vladimir Putin's most vociferous critic, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term for offences widely considered politically motivated.

He was moved to an Arctic penal colony, considered one of the toughest jails, late last year.

The prison service in the Yamalo-Nenets district said he had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday.

The causes of his death were being established, Tass news agency reported.

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