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(FILES) Russian anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny leaves a detention centre in Moscow on March 6, 2015. Navalny was jailed on February 19 for 15 days for handing out flyers advertising the March 1 protest in the capital�s subway. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPP KIREEV. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died on February 16, 2024 at the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, Russia's federal penitentiary service said in a statement. (Photo by PHILIPP KIREEV / AFP)
Latvian President said on Friday Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been "brutally murdered by the Kremlin" after Russian authorities announced Navalny's death.
"Whatever your thoughts about Alexei Navalny as the politician, he was just brutally murdered by the Kremlin. That's a fact and that is something one should know about the true nature of Russia's current regime," President Edgars Rinkevics said on X (formerly Twitter), offering condolences to Navalny's relatives.
