Floral tributes to Alexey Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe who died in a Russian penal colony, were removed overnight by groups of unknown people while police watched.
Floral tributes to Alexey Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe who reportedly died Friday in a Russian penal colony, were removed overnight by groups of unidentified people while police watched, videos on Russian social media show.More than 100 people were detained in eight cities across Russia after they came to lay flowers in memory of Navalny, according to OVD-Info, a group that monitors political repression in Russia.
An ambulance arrived, but he couldn't be revived; the cause of death is still 'being established,' it said.Navalny had been jailed since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow to face certain arrest after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin. He was later convicted three times, saying each case was politically motivated, and received a sentence of 19 years for extremism.
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