#newsonleo #russia #politics #rip Russian media, citing Department of Federal Penitentiary Services, report that Alexei Navalny, jailed activist and opposition politician known as Putin's fiercest critic, died in custody at age 47. 1/
#newsonleo #russia #politics #rip Russian media, citing Department of Federal Penitentiary Services, report that Alexei Navalny, jailed activist and opposition politician known as Putin's fiercest critic, died in custody at age 47. 1/
2/ Unofficial sources claim that the cause of Navalny's death was blood cloth. Navalny was serving 19 years sentence for "extremism", given in 2022, following previous 5-year sentence for embezzlement, fraud and parole violations.
3/ Navalny, who began his career as staunch Russian nationalist advocating union with Ukraine and Belarus, gradually became the most popular and most charismatic figure within the pro-Western factions of Russian opposition.
4/ Navalny has built has much of his support by exposing corruption within Putin's regime and by organising street protests against Putin in 2011 and 2012.
5/ In 2020 Navalny fell ill and went to Germany for medical treatment, where he was diagnosed with poisoning. Upon return in 2021 he was arrested for violation of parole, with additional charges of "extremism" being brought at the eve of "Special Miltary Operation".
6/ While Navalny's popularity in Russia might be a matter of debate, he was hailed as icon of democratic opposition in the West. Navalny, documentary about his life, won Oscar in 2023.
7/ Navalny is survived by wife Yulia Navalnaya and two children - daughter Daria (b. 2001) and son Zahar (b. 2008).