Biden says Putin is responsible for Navalny's death
The famed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison, Russian media reported on Feb. 16.
A portrait of Alexei Navalny, candles and flowers are left at a memorial in Paris on Feb. 16, 2024, after the announcement that the Kremlin's most prominent critic had died in an Arctic prison. (Photo by Ian Langsdon/AFP via Getty Images)
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KEY UPDATES
- Russian state media: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison
- Navalny's spokesperson said the news had not been confirmed yet
- Kremlin spokesperson said that 'doctors must find out' more details about Navalny's death, Putin informed
- Michel: 'EU holds Russian regime (solely) responsible for (Navalny's) tragic death'
- Navalny's mother: 'He was alive, healthy, and cheerful' days ago
- Russian state-controlled media: Medics 'arrived in less than 7 minutes' to revive Navalny
- Independent Russian media to demand footage from Navalny's penal colony
- Navalny's wife: Putin must be brought to justice for what he did to our country, Navalny
- Harris: 'Russia is responsible' for Navalny's death
- Biden: Putin is responsible for Navalny's death.
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Protestors gather at Russian embassies across the world to protest Navalny's death
Protestors gathered outside the Russian embassy in London on Feb. 16, 2024. (Reuters/X)
Russian authorities disrupt rallies honoring Navalny, detentions reported
People leave flowers outside the Russian Embassy in London on Feb. 16, 2024, following the news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (Daniel Leal/ AFP)
Navalny's team says no official confirmation of his death until tomorrow
Flowers and candles are left at a memorial on Feb. 16, 2024, in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, after the announcement that the Kremlin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, had died in an Arctic prison. (John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden: Putin is responsible for Navalny's death
U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Navalny's death prompts fresh calls for Ukraine aid in US
Senator John Fetterman speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Russian parliament speaker: 'Washington and Brussels are to blame for Navalny's death'
TOPSHOT - Police officers detain one of the protest movement leaders, Alexei Navalny, at Moscow's Pushkinskaya Square, on March 5, 2012, as the protesters refuse to leave the venue at the end of their larger rally earlier. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
Harris: 'Russia is responsible' for Navalny's death
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on stage at the 2024 Munich Security Conference on February 16, 2024 in Munich, Germany. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
Meduza: Russian officials don't expect mass protests following Navalny's death
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) leaves the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace as officers of the Presidential Regiment (R) look on during an award ceremony marking the Heroes of Russia Day on Dec. 8 in Moscow. Putin said after the ceremony that he would run for president again in the 2024 election. (Contributor/Getty Images)
Navalny's wife: Putin must be brought to justice for what he did to our country, Navalny
Yulia Navalnaya addressing participants of the Munich Security Conference following reports of her husband's death on Feb. 16, 2024. (Alexei Navalny YouTube channel/screenshot)
Stoltenberg: 'Deeply saddened and disturbed' by news of Navalny's death
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a press conference at NATO headquarters on Feb. 14, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana / Getty Images)
Independent Russian media to demand footage from Navalny's penal colony
Tsikhanouskaya: Navalny's 'death is further proof that for dictators, human life has no value'
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya meets with Polish government officials in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 9, 2024. (Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
Russian state-controlled media: Medics 'arrived in less than 7 minutes' to revive Navalny
A screen shows jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as he arrives to listen to a hearing on an appeal lodged against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism-linked charges, at a court in Moscow on Sept. 26, 2023. (Tatyana Makeyeva / AFP via Getty Images)
Zelensky: 'Obviously (Navalny) was killed by Putin'
President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the press in Kyiv in December 2023. (Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Navalny's mother: 'He was alive, healthy, and cheerful' days ago
Scholz: Navalny 'probably paid for his courage with his life'
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives to hold talks with members of the foreign press on Sept. 12, 2023, at the Chancellery in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images)
Von der Leyen: 'Deeply disturbed and saddened by news of death of Alexei Navalny'
Nadezhdin: 'I pray that the information turns out to be untrue'
TOPSHOT - Boris Nadezhdin, the Civic Initiative Party presidential hopeful, arrives at the Central Election Commission to submit signatures collected in support of his candidacy, in Moscow on January 31, 2024. (Vera Savina / AFP via Getty Images)
Michel: 'EU holds Russian regime (solely) responsible for (Navalny's) tragic death'
President of the European Council Charles Michel attends a joint press conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Moldova's President Maia Sandu in Kyiv, Ukraine November 21, 2023 (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Former Navalny chief of staff: 'We have no reason to believe state propaganda'
Kremlin spokesperson: Putin informed about Navalny's death
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov walks out after a meeting with African leaders at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna on June 17, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Contributor/Getty Images)
