Συντάκτης: Pegky Dokou

The Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country’s prison service has said, in what is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin. Navalny, 47, one of Putin’s most visible and persistent critics, was being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a “special regime”. In a video from the prison in January, Navalny appeared gaunt with his head shaved. The Kremlin said it had no information on the cause of death. In early December he had disappeared…