Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned before his unexpected death last year in an Arctic penal colony, according to a video his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, posted on X.

Navalny was 47 years old when he died in Feb. 2024. Russia’s prison service reported he was found unresponsive after feeling unwell following a walk around the high-security facility in a remote town above the Arctic Circle, where he was serving a combined 30 ½-year jail sentence.

His widow has repeatedly accused the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin of being involved in Navalny's death. Russian officials have said only that Navalny died of natural causes and have vehemently denied involvement.

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