[Russia] - Alexei Navalny Dies in Jail-- Prison Service

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Navalny started to feel unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness at correctional facility No
3 on Feb
16," the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district prison service said."Medical staff arrived immediately, an ambulance was called
on "anything at all.""We're sorting things out right now
A lawyer had visited Alexei on Wednesday
Everything was fine then," Solovyov told the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had been
where he could be heard joking about his finances with the judge.The 47-year-old activist, who was serving a 19-year "extremism" sentence,
dead
That's why it happened, that's why it was allowed to happen," a former senior Kremlin official told The Moscow Times on condition of
anonymity.A current Russian government official suggested that, if Navalny's death is confirmed, the cause may have been his regular
opposition figures have blamed the Kremlin for Navalny's death.Latvia's president said the activist had been "brutally murdered by the
no medical forensic examination yet, but the West has its conclusions ready," she wrote on the messaging app Telegram.Navalny was imprisoned
in January 2021, when he returned to Russia after recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with what Western scientists said was Novichok, a
organizations later that year, prompting nearly all of his allies to leave the country to avoid prosecution.Navalny had vowed to continue
his opposition to the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine from prison.This is a developing story
AFP contributed reporting.