The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated in prison in February 2024. Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable critic for years, died in mysterious circumstances while serving a 19-year prison sentence on a string of charges widely seen as retribution for his campaigning. Read more: https://ab.co/4gw6BOp Get the news that matters to you straight from the

Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman confirmed that Russia's most prominent opposition leader was dead, and said it was unclear where his body had been taken. A morgue close to the Arctic prison where he died said it had not received the body https://reut.rs/3T23lQU | Reuters

WATCH: Protests in Moscow escalated over the weekend, including bouts of violence with police. 👉 Supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny are staging protests across Russia Sunday over plans to increase the nation's pension age, as Russians go to the polls for regional elections. https://www.voanews.com/a/demonstrators-protest-russian-pension-reform-plans/4563696.html?nocache=1 | Voice of America