Vladimir Putin's main opponent Alexei Navalny died this Friday in the penal colony in a remote Arctic region. At 47, he was serving a 19-year prison sentence for ‘extremism’ after being arrested in January 2021.
For Russia specialist Carole Grimaud, the news of his death resonates like a clap of thunder. Death of Alexeï Navalny: “The chapter of the Russian political opposition is closed’. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, judged that Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to ‘be held accountable for his crimes’