In photos: Alexey Navalny, Russian opposition politician and Putin nemesis, dead at 47
Alexey Navalny, reported to have died on Friday by Russia’s prison service, was the fiercest domestic opponent of Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of trying to kill him and of having him jailed on bogus charges and deprived of medical care.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny pays his respects to the founder of Russia’s oldest human rights group and Sakharov Prize winner Lyudmila Alexeyeva in Moscow on December 11, 2018.Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
Alexey Navalny appears via a video link from the Arctic penal colony where he is serving a 19-year sentence on Jan. 11, 2024.Alexander Zemlianichenko/The Associated Press
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference, on the day it was announced that he is dead.KAI PFAFFENBACH/Getty Images
A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexey Navalny during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany on Feb. 16, 2024.Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press
Alexey Navalny founded RosPil in 2010, an anti-corruption project run by a team of lawyers that analyzes spending of state agencies and companies, exposing violations and contesting them in court in Moscow, Russia.Alexander Zemlianichenko/The Associated Press
Anti-Kremlin blogger Alexey Navalny speaks during a rally against the December 4 parliamentary elections in Moscow, on December 24, 2011.KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/Getty Images
Police detain protest leader Alexey Navalny, seen wearing hooded jacket, after a rally in Pushkin Square in Moscow on March 5, 2012.Maria Turchenkova/The Associated Press
Policemen detain Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny (C), after he visited the city's election commission office to submit documents to get registered as a mayoral election candidate, in Moscow July 10, 2013.Grigory Dukor/Reuters
Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny's wife Yulia, right, and his brother Oleg Navalny, center, comfort Alexei at a court in Moscow, Russia on Dec. 30, 2014.The Associated Press
Alexey Navalny takes a selfie picture as he attends a memorial march marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow, on February 27, 2016.KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/Getty Images
Photo taken on April 27, 2017 of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny after unknown attackers doused him with green antiseptic outside a conference venue in Moscow, Russia.The Associated Press
Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who was arrested during March 26 anti-corruption rally, gestures during an appeal hearing at a court in Moscow on March 30, 2017.KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/Getty Images
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, centre, attends a rally in Moscow, Russia on Jan. 28, 2018.Evgeny Feldman/The Associated Press
From his instagram account Alexei Navalny, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, with medical workers in a hospital hospital in Berlin, Germany on Sept. 15, 2020 after he recovered from being poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent, German authorities confirmed.The Canadian Press
Policemen detain Alexey Navalny, on June 12, 2019 in Moscow, during a rally in support of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, who was accused of drug offences and later freed from house arrest.MAXIM SHEMETOV/Reuters
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya are seen on board a plane during a flight from Berlin to Moscow, January 17, 2021.Maria Vasilyeva/Reuters
Opposition leader Alexey Navalny is escorted out of a police station on January 18, 2021, in Khimki, outside Moscow.ALEXANDER NEMENOV/Getty Images
Law enforcement officers clash with participants during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in Moscow on January 23, 2021.MAXIM SHEMETOV/Reuters
Photo provided by the Moscow City Court, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny makes a heart gesture during a hearing in Moscow on Feb. 3, 2021.The Associated Press
Alexey Navalny attends a hearing to consider an appeal against an earlier court decision to change his suspended sentence to a real prison term, in Moscow on February 20, 2021.MAXIM SHEMETOV/Reuters
A sign for the settlement of Kharp, where Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny serves his jail term in the IK-3 penal colony, in the Yamal-Nenets Region, Russia on December 29, 2023.STRINGER/Reuters
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in Pokrov before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his prison sentence, in Moscow on May 17, 2022.EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/Reuters