The Federal Penitentiary Service said in a statement that Navalny, 47, felt unwell after a walk and lost consciousness.
Updated: 16 minutes agoRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows a heart symbol standing in the cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Feb. 2, 2021.
Navalny felt unwell after a walk Friday, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service, and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived, but he could not be revived. The service said the cause of death was “being established.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was informed of Navalny’s death. The opposition leader’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the team had no confirmation yet.
Before his arrest, Navalny campaigned against official corruption, organized major anti-Kremlin protests and ran for public office. Prison authorities repeatedly put Navalny in a tiny cell to punish him for minor infractions. Last month, he said that he was placed in such a cell after officials accused him of refusing to “introduce himself in line with protocol.”
By concentrating on corruption, Navalny’s work had a pocketbook appeal to Russians’ widespread sense of being cheated, and he carried stronger resonance than more abstract and philosophical concerns about democratic ideals and human rights. Police detain protest leader Alexei Navalny, seen wearing hooded jacket, after a rally in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Monday, March 5, 2012.
His work broadened from focusing on corruption to wholescale criticism of the political system under Putin. He was a central galvanizing figure in protests of unprecedented size against dubious national election results and the exclusion of independent candidates. A year later, on Aug. 20, 2020, he became severely ill on a flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk. The plane made an emergency landing in the city of Omsk, where he spent two days in a hospital while supporters begged doctors to allow him to be taken to Germany for treatment.
Russian authorities then raised the stakes, announcing that during his time in Germany, Navalny had violated the terms of a suspended sentence in one of his convictions and that he would be arrested if he returned home.
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