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Alexei Navalny’s Death: What It May Mean for Russia, Ukraine and the West

Posted: February 16th, 2024

By Tom Nagorski

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Yulia Navalnaya had come to the Munich Security Conference to urge the gathering of world leaders to think of her husband in their high-level meetings. Then came word that the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was dead. She said that for a moment, she considered leaving, “But then I thought, what would Alexei do in my place? And I’m sure he would be here. He would be on this stage.”

Officials in the Russian Arctic, where Navalny was serving a prison sentence, said he had “felt unwell” during a walk early Friday and died soon after. But Navalnaya and other world leaders laid the blame for her husband’s death squarely on the Kremlin. 

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