Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dead, says prison service.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dead, says prison service The Russian prison service issued a brief statement, and according to that statement, its version of events, Alexei Navalny fell ill this morning after a walk inside the penal colony.

The Russian prison service claims that he lost consciousness almost immediately, and that local medical staff, prison medical staff, were called to the scene and then an ambulance was called.

Attempts were made, again according to the prison service, to revive him, but those attempts failed. His cause of death as yet unknown, according to the official version of events.

Alexei Navalny was the Kremlin’s most vocal critic. No doubt about that. In fact, he was the only opposition leader in this country who had been capable of bringing large numbers of people, large numbers of protesters onto the streets across the country. He got under the Kremlin’s skin for sure and had accused them of trying to assassinate him back in 2020 Source BBC news