Kremlin Foe Alexei Navalny’s Team Confirms His Death, With Cause Unknown, as His Mother Searches for His Body

‘It’s obvious that they are lying and doing everything they can to avoid handing over the body,’ says a representative for the dissident, who died in Prison Friday.

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Police at Saint Petersburg detain a man who sought to lay flowers paying respects to Alexei Navalny at a monument to the Gulag system, February 17, 2024. AP

A spokeswoman for Alexei Navalny confirmed Saturday that the Russian opposition leader had died at a remote Arctic penal colony and said he was “murdered,” but it is unclear where his body is.

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