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Russian opponent of Vladimir Putin Alexeï Navalny, 47, died in prison, the Russian prison services announced.
He was serving a 19-year prison sentence for “extremism” in a remote Arctic prison.
Alexei Navalny's team said they had not been informed of the politician's death and that a lawyer was traveling to the scene.
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Navalny 'has just been brutally assassinated by the Kremlin,' says Latvia's president
“Whatever your opinion of Alexei Navalny as a politician, he was just brutally murdered by the Kremlin.
This is a fact and something that needs to be known about the true nature of the current regime in Russia,” Latvia presenter Edgars Rinkevics said on the social network X.
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His lawyer is on his way to prison
The prison service “announces the news of the death of Alexei Navalny in penal colony number 3. We do not yet have confirmation of this.
Alexei's lawyer leaves by plane for Kharp (the location where the prison is located, Editor's note).
We will communicate as soon as we have information,” Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Iarmich wrote on X (ex-Twitter).
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