The news of his death resonates like a clap of thunder.
Vladimir Putin's main opponent Alexei Navalny died this Friday in the penal colony in a remote Arctic region where he had recently been transferred.
At 47, he was serving a 19-year prison sentence for “extremism” after being arrested in January 2021.
Since midday, international reactions have been pouring in.
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, declared that “in today’s Russia, we put free spirits in the gulag and condemn them to death.”
The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky - visiting Germany and then France -, for his part, judged that Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to “be held accountable for his crimes”.
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