According to the Russian prison authorities, Alexei Navalny, a leader in the opposition to Vladimir Putin and a fierce critic of the president, has passed away in a prison.
There was an arrest in January of a 47-year-old Navalny, one of Putin’s most prominent and steadfast opponents, in a prison around 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle under a “special regime,” in which he was sentenced to a 19-year sentence under a “special regime”. In the video, he appeared scrawny with his head shaved, according to The Guardian.
In response to a request from the Kremlin, the Kremlin has declined to provide the reason for his death.
The man had disappeared from a prison in the Vladimir area at the beginning of December just before he was due to be released. As he described the charges against him, which he had said were political reprisals against him for spearheading the opposition against Russian rule in the 2010s, he had been serving a 30-year sentence for extremism and fraud. The fact that Putin was still alive made it unlikely that he would be released from prison.
Additionally, Navalny is a former nationalist politician who has been investigating Putin’s inner circle, campaigning against corruption in the government and electoral fraud, as well as sharing his findings through stylish videos, all of which contributed to the Russian protests that took place from 2011 to 2012.
During a mayoral election held in Moscow in 2013 that was deemed unfair or unequal, he received a staggering 27% of the vote and reached the pinnacle of his political career. As a result of the investigation, Putin’s personal palace on the Black Sea, the homes and boats used by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev have become thorns in the Kremlin’s side, causing them to suffer a great deal of reputational damage.
It was reported in 2020 that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok by Russia’s FSB security force and that he had been flown to Germany for treatment after he was accused of being poisoned by the agency.
In January 2021, after making a complete recovery from the injuries both he and his family had suffered during the war, he returned to Russia, where he was detained on suspicion of violating his parole and given the first of multiple prison sentences that eventually resulted in spending more than 30 years behind bars.
The Russian president has announced that he will run for a fifth term in the presidency in order to continue in office. It is possible that if he decides to run for office again in 2030, he would become the longest-serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin, due to the fact that he changed the term limits provisions in the 2020 constitution.
Timenews provided that news.
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