JUST IN – Alexei Navalny has died in Russia. pic.twitter.com/m7EQkhlWYw
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In a statement published on its website, the Federal Penitentiary Service said that Navalny “felt unwell” after a walk on Friday, and “almost immediately lost consciousness.”
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous opposition leader, died on Friday after collapsing and losing consciousness at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said.
Navalny, 47, rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite whom he accused of vast corruption, avarice and opulence.
The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said in a statement that Navalny “felt unwell” after a walk at the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp, about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) north east of Moscow.