What is known about the death of blogger Alexei Navalny?

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The Federal Bureau of Prisons says the inmate got sick after a walk

MOSCOW, February 16 /TASS/. Blogger Alexei Navalny, who was serving a sentence for fraud and extremism, has died at the age of 47 in a penal colony in Yamal, the regional branch of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishment (FSIN) reported.

According to the agency, the prisoner fell ill after a walk. Staff attempted to resuscitate him but were unable to do so. TASS has gathered basic information about the incident.

Circumstances

• Navalny died in penal colony No. 3 in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region.
• According to FSIN, after the walk he "felt sick and almost immediately passed out". Doctors arrived immediately and attempted to revive him but were unable to do so.
• The causes of the blogger's death are still being investigated. Navalny had no health problems and his relatives had not filed any request for medical treatment before the incident, the Yamal Public Oversight Commission said.

Reaction of the authorities

• Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was in Chelyabinsk at the time, was informed of the incident from Moscow by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
• FSIN is conducting due diligence and no further instructions are needed regarding the incident, the Kremlin spokesman said. "There is a certain set of rules that everyone is now following," he explained.
• The Russian Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation into Navalny's death.

What Navalny was serving time for

• Navalny has twice been given suspended sentences on fraud charges for his time at Yves Rocher. After repeatedly violating the terms of his probation, the blogger's suspended sentence was replaced with actual prison time in 2021.
• In March 2022, Navalny was found guilty of contempt of court and fraud in raising campaign funds and sentenced to a prison term in a strict regime colony. In August 2023, the court found the blogger guilty of creating an extremist community.

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