Russia’s jail agency said Ayxi Navalani, the fierce enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who crushed against official corruption and staged a large -scale anti -Kramalin protest, died in jail on Friday. He was 47 years old.
The federal jail service said in a statement that Navalani felt unwell after walking on Friday and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived to try to rehabilitate her, but he died.
Navalani spokesman Kira Yarmaish said on X, the stage was previously known TwitterThat the politician’s team had no confirmation of his death till now and his lawyer was traveling to the city where he was held.
Navalani, who was serving a 19-year sentence for extremism allegations, was taken to “Special Governance” Penal Colony from his former jail in the Vladimir region of Central Russia in December-the highest security level of jails in Russia above the-Artic Circle.
His colleagues reduced the transfer to a colony in the city of Kharp, in the Yamlo-Nnets region of about 1,900 km (1,200 mi) in the north-east of Musco, as there was another attempt to force Navalani in silence so far.
The remote areas are notorious for long and severe winter. Kharp is about 100 km (60 mi) from Vorkuta, whose coal mines were part of the Soviet Gulag Gel-Shree system.
Since January 2021, Navalani was behind bars, when he returned to Moscow after repetition in Germany in Germany from the poisoning of the nervous agent, which he convicted the Kremlin. Prior to his arrest, he launched a campaign against official corruption, organized major anti-creamlin protests and fled to the public office.
He had since been sentenced to three prisons since then, all of whom had rejected as politically motivated.
In Putin’s Russia, political opponents often faded between groups -discriminations or went into exile after imprisonment, suspected poison or other heavy suppression. But Navalni continued to strengthen and reached the top of the opposition through Grit, Bravo and became intense understanding how social media could ignore the suffocation of Kremlin’s independent news outlets.
He faced each shock – whether it is a physical attack or imprisonment – with an intensive devotion, to face dangers with a sardonic intellect. This inspired him to return from Germany to Russia and for a bold and frightening step of some arrest.
Navalani was born about 40 km (25 mi) outside Moscow in Butane. He obtained a law degree from People’s Friendship University in 1998 and made a fellowship in Yale in 2010.
He attracted attention by focusing on corruption in the merger mixture of Russia of politicians and businesses; One of his early tricks was to become a worker in Russian oil and gas companies to become a shareholder and push for transparency. By focusing on corruption, there was a pocketbook appeal for the widespread sense of Russians being cheated in Navalani work, and he rescued stronger than democratic ideals and human rights than more abstract and philosophical concerns.
He was convicted for embezzlement in 2013, which he called a politically motivated prosecution and sentenced to five years in jail, but the prosecutor’s office later surprisingly demanded his release appeal. A High Court later sentenced him suspended.
A day before the sentence, Navalani registered as a candidate for Moscow Mayor. The opposition saw his release as a result of the major protests in his sentence capital, but many observers attributed it to a will by the authorities for adding a ting of validity to the mayorl election.
Navalani finished second, which was an impressive performance against the assignment, which had Putin’s political machine support and was popular for improving the capital’s infrastructure and aesthetics.
In 2015, the leading charismatic politician, Boris Nestsov, was shot dead on a bridge near Kremlin.
Whenever Putin talked about Navalani, he made a point in a clear attempt to reduce his importance, as “that person” or a similar word “as a word” to not mention a worker by the name “.
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