A woman holds a portrait of opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Alexei Navalny, a staunch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a popular opposition leader, died on Feb. 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year-long prison sentence. Outcries can be heard from around the world, with many fingers pointing to Putin as the person responsible for Navalny's death. According to the Russian prison service, Navalny collapsed while on a walk, and could not be saved. See the world react to the news of Navalny's death here.
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, on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)People lay flowers paying their last respect to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
A protester stands opposite the Russian Embassy holding a placard in London on Feb. 16, 2024, in reaction to the news that jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)A portrait of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and flowers are pictured as people demonstrate near to Russian embassy to France on Feb. 16, 2024, in Paris. 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. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Protestors light candles on Feb. 16, 2024, in front of the Russian embassy in Prague, after the announcement that the Kremlin’s most prominent critic Alexei Navalny had died in an Arctic prison. (MILAN KAMMERMAYER/AFP via Getty Images)
Protestors take part in a rally on Feb. 16, 2024, in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, after the announcement that the Kremlin’s most prominent critic Alexei Navalny had died in an Arctic prison. Navalny’s death after three years in detention and a poisoning which he blamed on the Kremlin deprives Russia’s opposition of its figurehead at time of intense repression and Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)Lyudmila, 83, addresses people gathered to lay flowers paying their last respect to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, in St. Petersburg, Russia on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)Photographs, flowers and lit candles are left outside the Russian Embassy in London on Feb. 16, 2024, following the news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Friday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “should be accountable for what has happened,” following news of the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Protesters hold posters with a portrait of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a writing that reads ‘Putin is a killer’ during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, on 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/Markus Schreiber)People stand near flowers and candles placed on the ground during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)A protester holds a portrait of Alexei Navalny as people gather to pay homage to Kremlin’s most prominent critic who had died in an Arctic prison, in Brussels on Feb. 16, 2024. Russia’s top opposition politician Alexei Navalny died on Feb. 16, 2024, at the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term. His death after three years in detention and a poisoning which he blamed on the Kremlin deprives Russia’s opposition of its figurehead at time of intense repression and Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)
Portraits of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, flowers and candles are laid on a ground as people protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, on 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/Ebrahim Noroozi)A woman holds a portrait of opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
