.The chance of being killed in prison is 50%-50%, “either I will be killed or I won’t be killed,” said Alexei Navalny in an interview with the New York Times in 2021, when asked what the probability to be killed during detention.

Oleksiy Navalny during the meeting Photo: Oleksandr NEMENOV / AFP / Profimedia

“As we now know, FSB killers began following me around the country the day after I announced my plans to run for president.

Was it a smart move? Seriously, order the secret services to kill your political opponent with chemical weapons? But Putin did it because he is obsessed with his own fears and ideas,” the Russian dissident said then, calling the Kremlin leader “a man who has lost his mind.”

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who exposed widespread corruption in Vladimir Putin’s entourage and was a fierce critic of the Kremlin, has died in prison, Reuters reported on Friday from his prison.

In December, 47-year-old Navalny was transferred to the “Polar Wolf” colony, which is considered one of the harshest in Russia, where most of the prisoners were convicted of murder or particularly serious crimes.

In 2020, Alexei Navalny was poisoned in Russia during a campaign tour with a Novachok-type neurotoxic agent, a substance developed in Soviet times for military purposes and already used against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in 2018. , in England.

Navalny fell ill on the plane and was taken to a hospital in Germany, where he was in an induced coma for more than a week.

Later he returned to Russia.

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