‘Putin is a killer’: Alexei Navalny’s friends warn of ‘cover up’ after Russian critic’s death in Arctic prison
Friends of Alexei Navalny have accused Vladimir Putin of ‘murder‘ after the opposition leader’s death - and claim Russian authorities will do everything they can to ‘cover it up’.
Russia’s most prominent Putin critic collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony where he was serving a long jail term, according to the prison service.
The 47-year-old lawyer, who rose to prominence more than a decade ago for fighting widespread corruption within the Putin regime, was cast by supporters as the future leader of Russia who would one day walk free from jail to take the presidency.
But exactly a month before the day of the next election in
