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By: Hannes Niemeyer
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Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny is apparently dead. He dedicated his life to fighting for his country and against Vladimir Putin's regime.
He probably paid for his courage with his life.
The chronicle of a fight for justice.
1 / 182012 elections in Russia: Navalny protests together with chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov (l.) for fair elections in Russia - in the end Vladimir Putin won.
© Anatoly Maltsev/dpa
2 / 18Nawalny - at that time already the superstar of the protest movement in Russia - with his wife Yulia, in court.
After his protests, he was initially released.
© Valentina Svistunova/dpa
3 / 18Kremlin critic Navalny in 2017 after a paint attack in front of his office.
© Evgeny Feldman/dpa
4 / 182017 Navalny called for protests across the country against corruption in Russia - and was sentenced to 15 days in arrest.
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5 / 182015 the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is shot dead on the street in Russia.
Navalny is taking part in the protests - here at a memorial demonstration in 2018 - and is increasingly becoming the new face of the opposition.
© Alexander Zemlianichenko/dpa
6 / 182018, Navalny planned to run as a candidate in the presidential election against Vladimir Putin.
However, a court decided in advance to exclude him from the elections.
© Evgeny Feldman/dpa
7 / 18Nawalny before the European Court of Human Rights in 2018. There, Russia had previously been convicted of arresting the Kremlin critic.
© Jean-Francois Badias/dpa
8 / 18Nawalny family: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (M), his wife Julija (r), his daughter Daria (l) and his son Sachar stand together after voting in a city council election in 2019.
© Andrew Lubimov/dpa
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9/18September 2020: After Novichok poisoning, Navalny is treated in the Berlin Charité.
© Daria Navalny/dpa
10 / 18After his recovery and return from Germany, Navalny was arrested in Russia - here he shows the "Victory" sign in handcuffs, accompanied by a police escort.
© Sergei Bobylev/dpa
11 / 18A large portrait of Alexei Navalny in the middle of St. Petersburg.
After just a few minutes it was allowed to be painted over again.
© Alexander Demianchuk / Imago
12 / 18Alexei Navalny (r) and his lawyers in the Moscow City Court 2021 - he faces a long prison sentence.
© Moscow City Court Press Service/dpa
13 / 18Alexei Navalny behind bars in early 2022 at a hearing regarding complaints about his placement during his 3.5-year sentence.
© Anna Ustinova / Imago
14 / 18Short moment of happiness in difficult times: Navalny and his wife Julija arm in arm around another hearing of the Kremlin critic in court in March 2022. 13 more years in prison were demanded for the alleged embezzlement of donations.
© Sergei Fadeichev / Imago / ITAR-TASS
15 / 18Images like this one from May 2022 from another hearing are fueling concerns about Navalny's health.
During his time in prison, the critic repeatedly went on hunger strike, for example.
His prison accommodation is said to have been poor at times.
© IMAGO/Sergei Karpukhin / ITAR-TASS
16 / 18Nawalny will be back in court in August 2023. The opposition leader was again sentenced to 19 years in prison for, among other things, extremism.
© IMAGO/Sofya SandurskayaITAR-TASS
17 / 18At the end of 2023, Navalny was briefly considered missing.
Then it was said that he was taken to a prison camp in Siberia.
The photo shows him in January 2024 at another video switch.
© Alexander Zemlianichenko/dpa
18 / 18On February 16, 2024, unexpected information came from Russia that Navalny had died in a prison camp.
The Kremlin critic is mourned worldwide.
© IMAGO/Vuk Valcic / ZUMA Wire
Moscow – On February 16, the surprising news came that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had died in a prison camp in Siberia.
The world mourns the loss of the Russian opposition leader who dedicated his life to fighting Vladimir Putin and for greater righteousness in his homeland.
Navalny has long been on Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin's list of enemies.
He is known worldwide, not least since the poison attack on the opposition activist, for which he spent a long time in Berlin being treated.
The cause of death was initially not officially known.
Russian media said a blood clot could be the trigger.
Navalny leaves behind two children and his wife Yulia Navalnaya - and the question arises as to whether she could even follow in his footsteps in politics.
When the news broke, Navalnaya was at the Munich Security Conference.
Navalny's wife spoke on site and announced that she would hold Putin accountable in the event of her husband's death.
(han)