Putin's biggest opponent Navalny dies in jail

Alexei Navalny: Death continues to wreak havoc on Russian President Putin's enemies. Putin's enemies are being eliminated on some pretext or the other. In the latest incident, news of the death of Putin's staunch critic and enemy Russian leader Alexei Navalny is coming to light. Russian leader Alexei Navalny, a critic of Vladimir Putin, was in jail. But now the news of his death has put other Putin rebels in panic as well.

According to news agency Reuters, jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was serving his sentence in the prison service in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets region. However, the cause of death could not be known. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison in what could be seen as a political murder attributed to Vladimir Putin, the prison service has said.

Alexey Navalny was serving a 19-year sentence

Navalny, 47, one of Putin's most prominent and frequent critics, was held in a prison about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where he was sentenced to 19 years under a "special regime." In January, a video of Navalny was also released from jail, in which he was seen looking thin with his head shaved. The Kremlin, the Russian president's office, said it had no information about the cause of death. Let us tell you that in early December, he disappeared from a prison in the Vladimir region, where he was serving a 30-year sentence on charges of extremism and fraud. Navalny's death is being called political retaliation for Navalny leading the anti-Kremlin movement in 2010. Because Navalny never expected to be released during Putin's lifetime.

In 2020, an attempt was made to kill Navalni by poisoning him.

Alexei Navalny, a staunch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with a nerve agent in the year 2020. During this time too, an attempt was allegedly made to murder him, but Alexey survived. The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Alexei Navalny felt unwell after taking a walk on Friday and fainted. Let us tell you that Navalny was an anti-corruption activist and a staunch critic of the Kremlin, who was known for his unwavering commitment to political reform and transparency. Despite facing many obstacles and threats to his security, Navalny had emerged as a leading voice for democracy in Russia.

How did Alexey die?

According to a statement issued by the prison, "On February 16, 2024, in penal colony No. 3, convict Alexei Navalny felt unwell after taking a walk. After that he almost immediately fainted. The medical staff of the institution immediately arrived and an ambulance. The team was called. All necessary resuscitation measures were taken, which did not yield positive results. Doctors in the ambulance declared Alexey dead on the spot. The cause of death is being investigated."