In February 2024, while jailed at an Arctic prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned to death, according to laboratory analysis of smuggled bodily samples, his widow stated Wednesday.
After completing a 19-year prison sentence on a number of charges commonly perceived as retaliation for his dissent, Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal adversary for years, passed away under strange circumstances.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians participated in anti-Kremlin demonstrations around the country after the charismatic anti-corruption activist revealed the purportedly ill-gotten wealth of Putin’s inner circle.
