Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison



Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, has died in a Russian prison. Navalny spent years speaking out against official corruption and survived being poisoned by a military nerve agent during a business trip to Russia in 2020. Today President Biden said he had “no doubt that the death of Navalny was the consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did.” NBC News’ Richard Engel reports.

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37 comments

  1. it is interesting… The American media is not worried about the American journalist killed in prison in Ukraine…. they are interested in the internal affairs of Russia.

  2. Sincère condoléenne a sa famille
    mais NAVALNY A retourné sa veste et Assange que devient t-il Nadvalny a ete au USA CHEZ LES YONG Leader voir Wikipédia

  3. Navalny is in prison not because he is the leader of the opposition. For example, the leader of the Communist Party is also the leader of the opposition, but he is not in prison. Navalny was in prison for theft of timber on an especially large scale.

  4. Lets not pretend like this doesn't happen in America. Just because it doesn't make headlines doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

  5. In US they used their DA to sue you into bankruptcy.
    Ask the dotard now !
    The DNC judges and DA are going after him now because they know that the dotard will be the President in 2025 !

  6. I hope his sacrifice will not go in vain 😞. Love to his wife and children, stay strong! 🩷May he rest in peace❤️. He will not be forgotten!!!!

  7. Free Andrea Assange and stop Genocide of Palestinians.

  8. why don't you US citizens, and EU citizens go out and bow down to black people? Your comments here make you look even more pathetic

  9. Как переживают о судьбах России?!😂

  10. Ещё одно совпадение:

    опять перед выборами☝🏻 в России.

    Скрипалей травили 4 марта 2018г. Выборы президента были 18 марта 2018г. Чтобы буламутить народ.
    Работают спецслужбы англии?

  11. Consider this. If Navalny was vulnerable of being killed outside of prison or outside Russia, imagine the increased danger he faces inside a Russian prison.

  12. Alexei was a right wing fascist. He was just one that "we" (the elite of this country) could work with. He was fine with Ukraine being invaded saying it was just inevitable and it's a done deal. The truth is our elites don't care about Ukraine. Only about power, money and status.

    America really brought this on ourselves by supporting a crook like Yeltsin and helping to create the very oligarchs that now rule Russia with iron fists. The blowback from propping up the worst people in Russia will be endless.

  13. Fight to the end because he was a man of principle he cannot be paid by gold, silver or etc.

  14. He gave his life so that someday his fellow countrymen might experience the freedoms that we enjoy in the USA. The irony is how Americans who cherish these same ideals are so brainwashed or uninformed to the point of open support of Vladimir Putin who,make no mistake, had a hand in this untimely death around election time no less,would gladly oversee trump destroy this country with his supporters while he pulls puppet strings 😢

  15. It was bad caviar. Happens all the time.

  16. What about when Biden allowed Zellensky to murder Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian prison?

  17. It would be better to exchange sleepy Joe for the American journalist Gonzalo Lira, who was killed in a Ukrainian prison.

  18. These people are liars. We don't know WHAT HAPPENED.

  19. It’s just an attempt to get the attention off of putins interview

  20. Meanwhile america has biden and trump who is anti nato and pro Russian and winning the poles.

  21. This is absurd! Navalny was no longer a threat to Putin. Why would Putin get rid of him?

  22. Doesn’t matter what country it is, the citizens are the ones running the show. Whether it be center stage or backstage, a country is nothing without its citizens. If all the Citizens want something it should be given to them.

  23. seems foolish to return to russia considering

  24. So many empty words and actions by this administration that they won’t even try to get real justice for anyone who we say we’ll protect. Shameful it is.

  25. Navalny was a Self Described FAR RIGHT NATIONALIST. He was ANTI IMMIGRATION. He also marched with skin heads. But please tell me you love him and he was a great man because he was "anti-Putin" lol.

  26. Died? Well, I guess that's the Russian way of saying murdered. This is the guy the Republicans want to emulate.

  27. Sad…RIP Alexei🌹🙏 Condolences to the family and friends.im glad he was able to vist with his mom .

  28. This happens in US prisons too. Corruption is just as bad in the US. ASK EPSTEIN…

  29. Oh my gosh! This is sad. 💔.

  30. Why go back in the lion's den once you barely escaped? He's tried to poison him numerous times. I guess the notoriety was more important than his life

  31. “Civillised” countries politicians openly support a genocide, other countries learn a part of it. Nobody knows who else will learn what, and what other mess it creates across the world.