Strange cars, no ambulances: Navalny’s fellow prisoner reports “unbelievable madness”. Putin critic Alexei Navalny is said to have died in a penal colony near Charp in the northern Tyumen Oblast in the Polar Urals.

It was said from Moscow that he collapsed while taking a walk in freezing temperatures. The cause of death, however, remained unclear even the day after the news of his death; his team spoke of suspected murder.