Russia. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service reports that Navalny felt ill after a walk and lost consciousness in the penal colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region, about 1,800 kilometers northeast of Moscow. An ambulance arrived, but he could not be revived; the cause of death is still “under investigation,” it says. Navalny had been in prison since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow to face certain arrest after recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning, which he blamed on the Kremlin. He was subsequently convicted three times, claiming each case was politically motivated, and received a 19-year sentence for extremism. After the latest verdict, Navalny said he understood he was “serving a life sentence, which is measured by the length of my life or the length of this regime’s life.” Hours after the news of Navalny’s death broke, his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, made a dramatic appearance at a security conference in Germany where many leaders were gathered.
