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epa11177776 People lay flowers on the ninth day after the death of Russian late opposition leader Alexei Navalny near the memorial to political prisoners in St. Petersburg, Russia, 24 February 2024. Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has died aged 47 in a penal colony, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District announced on 16 February 2024. In late 2023 Navalny was transferred to an Arctic penal colony considered one of the harshest prisons. EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV