Watch Yulia Navalnaya speak following report of husband Alexei's death - BBC News

Yulia Navalnaya tells a conference in Munich she doesn't know whether the "horrible news" is true.

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CloseJailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the region where he had been serving his sentence says.

An outspoken critic of President Putin, he had been jailed since 2021 on charges widely viewed as politically motivated.

Shortly after his death was announced, his wife Yulia Navalnaya said the news so far only came from state sources.

"We can't really believe Putin and his government," she told the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68319500

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