Putin’s number one critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Picture: AP)

Russian opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, has died in jail, the prison service has reported.

The cause of death of the imprisoned politician has initially been given as a ‘detached blood clot’.

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