Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, dies in prison. He was 47
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic, died in February 2024 at 47 in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia's prison agency said. Western officials blamed Putin's government.
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