Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison
Published on February 16, 2024
Russia’s most prominent political opposition leader and ardent critic of the Putin government, Alexei Navalny, collapsed and died on Friday, Feb. 16, in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving an extended jail term. Mr. Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, was vocal about official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests. He has been incarcerated since January 2021 following his return to Moscow from Germany where he was recuperating from a nerve agent poisoning. Mr. Navalny accused the Kremlin of the poisoning which was done using Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent. After his return, he was served with three prison sentences, totaling more than 30 years....