Leading Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison, state news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing the prison authorities.
Navalny, 47, collapsed on Friday after a walk in his penal colony in the northern Russian region of Yamal and immediately lost consciousness, the report said, adding that resuscitation attempts by paramedics were unsuccessful.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin had been informed of his death, but did not provide any further details.
Navalny’s team stated that it had not yet received confirmation of the opposition figure’s death.
“I am not commenting at all, at the request of Alexei Navalny’s family,’’ his lawyer Leonid Solovyov told independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
