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Russia’s Putin will not go unpunished for Navalny’s death, wife Yulia says

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, spoke at the Munich Security Conference, on the day her husband's death was announced [Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his associates will not go “unpunished” if the death of Alexey Navalny, as reported by Russian officials, turns out to be true, the Kremlin critic’s wife Yulia has said.

Russia’s prison agency earlier said Navalny died on Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence. The 47-year-old had crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as Putin’s fiercest foe.

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