As news of #AlexeiNavalny's death spread, spontaneous memorials took place in several urban areas, with people taken into custody in 36 cities from the border city of #Belgorod to #Vorkuta, an Arctic mining outpost once a centre of the Stalin-era gulag labour camps, to #NizhnyNovgorod, #Krasnodar, #RostovOnDon and #Tver. #Ukraine
Russian opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny has died after feeling unwell & losing consciousness following a walk on Friday in the penal colony where he was held, according to the country's prison service. He was 47. Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov told reporters today that Russian President Vladimir #Putin has been informed of his death, & prison medics are working to identify the cause of death.
A #PrisonerSwap for #Navalny was in the final stages before the opposition leader’s death
Associates of Russian opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny said Mon that talks were underway shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany.
“Alexei Navalny could have been sitting here now, today. It’s not a figure of speech,” Maria Pevchikh, who lives outside #Russia, said in a video statement.
#POTUS Joe #Biden on Fri announced >500
new #sanctions on #Russia & its #war machine in the largest tranche of penalties since Moscow’s invasion of #Ukraine nearly 2 yrs ago.
Biden followed through on a promise to further punish #Putin 1 wk after opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny died in a Siberian prison. The sanctions — as well as those added Fri by the #EU — come 1 day before the 2nd anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
#YuliaNavalnaya, the widow of #AlexeiNavalny, #Putin’s most formidable opponent, vowed on Mon to carry on her husband’s crusade against the Russian regime, striving to build “a free, peaceful, happy Russia, a beautiful #Russia of the future, which my husband dreamed of so much.” #Navalnaya, 47, made her announcement on YouTube, in which she accused Russian authorities of fatally poisoning #Navalny in the Arctic prison where he died suddenly on Fri at age 47.
The Russian authorities have transferred the body of the opposition leader Aleksei A. #Navalny to his mother, his spox said on Sat, ending a grim battle for custody of his remains, but it is unclear whether he will get a #funeral that the #public can attend.
Here are some of the latest images on the newswires ahead of the funeral of #AlexeiNavalny in #Moscow. The memorial service will be held at 2pm Moscow time (11am GMT) at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, in #Maryino. The burial will then take place at the #BorisovskoyeCemetery at 4pm Moscow time (1pm GMT): #Russia#Ukraine
Toujours se méfier des trop belles images et des engouements trop unanimes..
Il a le mérite d'être un opposant à Poutine, mais Alexeï Navalny n'est pas si propre que cela ! Racisme, nationalisme et valeurs réactionnaires sont au menu.
Russian authorities have declared that the opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny died of natural causes but are refusing to release his remains until his mother agrees to a “secret funeral,” #Navalny’s mother & his spox said on Thurs.
Vladimir #Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable
When Russian prison authorities announced the death of #AlexeiNavalny, Vladimir Putin’s most potent political opponent, the Russian president appeared to be overflowing w/cheer.
Addressing a group of workers & students at a machinery plant in #Russia’s industrial city of Chelyabinsk on Fri, a smiling Putin, unsurprisingly, made no mention of #Navalny’s death in a faraway Arctic prison….
Why are the @guardian keeping their mouths shut about #JulianAssange, but have wall to wall coverage of #AlexeiNavalny when Assange will face the same kind of treatment in a US Supermax prison.
The ultimate goal of the US will be to kill Assange, hundreds of people worldwide who have been extradited to the US ends up dead. The US always kill those that they target.
Assange exposed the truth about US military murdering innocent civilians, he should be celebrated, not killed. #FreeJulianAssange.
Mort de Navalny: le RN pris au piège de ses ambiguïtés
La classe politique française a rendu hommage à #AlexeïNavalny et dénoncé la responsabilité de #VladimirPoutine. Le #RassemblementNational a tenté de faire oublier qu’il avait voté contre plusieurs résolutions européennes qui condamnaient sa captivité.
"If your convictions are worth anything, you should be ready to stand up for them and, if necessary, make some sacrifices. And if you're not ready, then you have no convictions at all - you just think you do....By returning, I fulfilled my promise to my voters. After all, there must eventually be those in Russia who do not lie to them."
"I would like Putin and all his staff – everybody around him, his government, his friends – I want them to know that they will be punished for what they have done with our country, with my family and with my husband.
They will be brought to justice, and this day will come soon.
And would like to call upon all the international community, all the people in the world, we should come together and we should fight against this evil."