Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader and the Kremlin's most outspoken critic, who died two years ago, is said to have been killed in prison with a deadly poison, this according to a statement released on February 14 by five European countries.
Tests on samples from Navalny’s body confirmed the presence of epibatidine, a powerful toxin found in poison dart frogs from South America. The statement said this substance does not occur naturally in Russia.
The five countries—the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands—said Russia had the ability, motive, and chance to give Navalny the poison while he was in a prison colony north of the Arctic Circle.
His death on February 16, 2024, shocked and angered the world, and many regard it as an assassination ordered by Vladimir Putin himself. But what do we know about this opposition leader, political activist, and lone uniting figure? Click through and revisit the life and death of Alexei Navalny.