Alexey Navalny's death wasn't directly ordered by Putin, WSJ reports

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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right).
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right).

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Navalny told his lawyer he thought he was being poisoned in prison months before his sudden death

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Alexei Navalny wearing a black jacket looks into the distance with Russian flags behind him.
Alexey Navalny takes part in a march at Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow.

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Russia says its democracy is the best in the world, days after Putin's only real political rival died in prison

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Forum of Future Technologies in Moscow on February 14, 2024 .

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Navalny was on the verge of being freed in a high-stakes deal with Putin when he suddenly died, his staffers claim

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Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's political enemy, died at an Arctic penal colony on February 16.

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Russia returns Navalny's body after his widow accused Putin of 'torturing' the political dissident's corpse

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Alexey Navalny died suddenly on February 16 in a Russian Artic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence.

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In Navalny's last letters, the Russian dissident called Trump's agenda for a second term 'really scary'

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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny attends an opposition march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow on February 25, 2018.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny attends an opposition march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow.

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Inside the deadly Russian Arctic prison where Alexey Navalny spent his last days

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The IK-3 prison colony in the village of Kharp, located above the Arctic Circle, over 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
Russian opposition politician, Alexey Navalny died in prison on Friday. The 47-year-old was held in a detention facility about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

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Navalny dies suddenly in Russian prison, world leaders blame Putin

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Putin critic and anti-corruption leader Alexey Navalny died in prison at the age of 47.

Why Alexey Navalny's death is unlikely to change Congress' Ukraine aid quagmire

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A memorial for Alexey Navalny and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's pleas couldn't change enough Republicans' minds, it's unclear how Alexey Navalny's death will be any different.

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Navalny's last post on X said Russian prison authorities were throwing him in solitary again. He'd just gotten out.

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Alexei Navalny is seen behind the bars in a police van after he was detained during protests.
Alexei Navalny seen behind the bars in the police van after he was detained during protests in Moscow, Russia.

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