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Photos of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with flowers and candles are laid on a ground in front of the Russian embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia's prison agency said. He was 47. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

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Western officials and Kremlin critics blame Putin and his government for Navalny's death in prison
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Fri,02/16/24-7:35AM , 145 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government.
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A coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is carried to the entrance of the Borisovskoye Cemetery during the funeral ceremony, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. (AP Photo)

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Protests, poisoning and prison: The life and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
By EMMA BURROWS AND DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Fri,02/16/24-7:25AM , 146 Reads
Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence.
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Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.

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Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
By JIM HEINTZ, DASHA LITVINOVA AND EMMA BURROWS - Associated Press
Fri,02/16/24-5:37AM , 634 Reads
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency
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A watch tower stands high on the grounds of the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, March 20, 2019, in Pearl, Miss. Incarcerated women in Mississippi were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, alleges. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Mississippi inmates were exposed to dangerous chemicals and denied health care, lawsuit says
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,02/14/24-2:03PM , 175 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges.
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