Jailed opposition leader and staunch Putin critic Alexey Navalny has died in a Russian prison camp, according to Russian prison authorities.
Alexey Navalny, a potent political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who survived at least two suspected poisonings, has died in a Russian penal colony, Russian prison authorities said Friday. The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District reported his death, saying he 'felt unwell' after going for a walk on Friday and 'almost immediately' lost consciousness.
In 1997, he graduated with a law degree from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow and spent a year in the U.S. as a Yale world fellow in 2010. Around that time, he began his public opposition to the Kremlin. Navalny the politician, and the poisoningsNavalny unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Moscow in 2013, denouncing an election he said was rigged by his opponent, a Putin ally.
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