Alexei Navalny, One of the Kremlin’s Most Vocal Critics, Has Died | WSJ

Alexei Navalny, the anticorruption activist who managed to galvanize Russia’s political opposition, died at age 47 while serving out a sentence in a Russian penal colony, Russian news agencies said. Despite being barred from challenging President Vladimir Putin at the ballot box, the leading opposition figure was one of the Kremlin’s most vocal critics. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images Chapters: 0:00 Navalny dies 0:36 Navalny’s rise to prominence 1:40 Navalny vs. Putin 2:36 Return to Russia #Russia #Navalny #WSJ