Current Events > Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison

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Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison inside the Arctic Circle, Russian news agencies report, quoting the prison service.

Seen as President Vladimir Putin's most vociferous critic, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term for offences widely considered politically motivated.
He was moved to an Arctic penal colony, considered one of the toughest jails, late last year.
The prison service in the Yamalo-Nenets district said he had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday.
He had "almost immediately lost consciousness", it said in a statement. The causes of his death were being established, Tass news agency reported.

Tragic how he fell out of a window 10 stories up, on the ground floor.

I wonder if this will lead to protests or if Russia is too far gone.

This does actually kinda surprise me. I figured they wanted to keep him alive to make an example out of him.

I wonder if this will lead to protests or if Russia is too far gone.

I imagine Tucker wont comment on this

Shame that everyone that challenges Putin winds up dead somehow. Russian people would have been so much better off with someone like Navalny in power but they settle for being bootlickers to an unstable, genocidal butcherer instead.

Don't feel sorry for Navalny. He was a trash person too, and really worse than Putin in a lot of ways - he just didn't have the power and allies to back it up. He was farther right wing, more racist, more nationalist, and more imperial than Putin.

The only reason the tankies and left in general liked him was because he was against Putin, that's it.

I wonder if this will lead to protests or if Russia is too far gone.

Russia is so far gone by now, that I don't think even getting utterly destroyed in a nuclear war would fix what little of it would be left afterwards, though at least that would get them out of everybody's hair.

Russia is so far gone by now, that I don't think even getting utterly destroyed in a nuclear war would fix what little of it would be left afterwards, though at least that would get them out of everybody's hair.

This does actually kinda surprise me. I figured they wanted to keep him alive to make an example out of him.

Quietly justifying genocide.

It's so fucked up what happened to him. All he did was run against Putin in an election. In a normal country that wouldn't be a crime

I feel bad for his family

Make no mistake, this is exactly the type of thing Trump and Republicans want to bring to this country. They admire Putin and are envious that he can silence opposition... permanently.

I am utterly surprised by this twist.

Tragic how he fell out of a window 10 stories up, on the ground floor.

Fuck Putin though. But just surprised it took this long to off him

Don't feel sorry for Navalny. He was a trash person too, and really worse than Putin in a lot of ways - he just didn't have the power and allies to back it up. He was farther right wing, more racist, more nationalist, and more imperial than Putin.

The only reason the tankies and left in general liked him was because he was against Putin, that's it.

this is literally the first ive ever fucking heard about navalny being more right-wing then Putin.

that makes no sense whatsoever.

I think pretty much everyone in America liked navalny over Putin. but somehow today Navalny is an ultra-fascist and even worse than the guy that killed him? since fucking when? gonna need to see some sources on that shit. i call bs.

In Soviet Russia, opposition leader....what opposition leader?