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FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, center left, and his mother-in-law Alla Abrosimova visit his grave at the Borisovskoye Cemetery, in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, March 2, 2024. A Russian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the mother of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition stalwart who died in prison in February, that claimed he received inadequate medical care, a close Navalny colleague said Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo, File)

Russian court rejects suit by Navalny’s mother claiming poor medical treatment by prison

A Russian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the mother of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition stalwart who died in prison in February, that claimed he received inadequate medical care, a close Navalny colleague said.

FILE - In this handout photo taken from video provided by the Moscow City Court on Feb. 2, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows a heart symbol while standing in a defendants' cage during a hearing in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia. President Vladimir Putin says he supported an idea to release Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the man who was his biggest foe died. (Moscow City Court via AP, File)

Commenting on Navalny’s death for first time, Putin says he supported prisoner swap for his foe

FILE - People walk toward the Borisovskoye Cemetery for the funeral ceremony of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. After Navalny died last month in an Arctic penal colony, his allies quickly returned to work undermining Vladimir Putin's 24-year grip on power. (AP Photo, File)

With Navalny dead, his allies keep fighting to undermine Putin’s grip on power

This image provided by Navalny Team on its Telegram channel shows the injuries sustained by Leonid Volkov, an ally and top strategist of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after he was attacked near his home in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 12, 2024. (Navalny Team via AP)

Ally of late Navalny accuses ‘Putin’s henchmen’ of attacking him in Lithuania, vows not to give up

FILE - Russia's Leonid Volkov, Chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election for Alexei Navalny's campaign, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021. Associates of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny reported on Tuesday night that the politician’s close ally and top strategist was attacked near his home in Lithuania. Navalny’s spokesman Kira Yarmysh said the assailant smashed a window of Leonid Volkov’s car, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and started hitting him with a hammer. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

The top strategist of late Russian opposition leader Navalny is attacked in Lithuania’s capital

Alexei Navalny: Russian court throws out mother’s legal claim

A Russian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the mother of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition stalwart who died in prison, that claimed he received inadequate medical care, a close Navalny colleague said.

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FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, attends a rally in Moscow on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. During his 24-year rule, Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone from tolerating dissent to suppressing any challenger. Most Russian opposition politicians are in prison or exile. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman, File)

Who are the Russian dissidents still serving time after Alexei Navalny died behind bars?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in prison.

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny addresses the European Union's parliament on Wednesday Feb. 28, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. The grief-stricken widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny implored the 27-nation bloc to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The legislature often interrupted her speech with applause and lauded her efforts to keep the memory of Navalny alive. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Navalny’s widow calls for Russia election day gatherings on March 17 to show dismay with Putin

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow has called on his supporters to join a protest of this month’s presidential election that Navalny devised shortly before his still-unexplained death.

La madre del opositor ruso Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Navalnaya (izquierda), y su suegra, Alla Abrosimova, visitan su tumba un día después de su entierro, en el cementerio Borisovskoye, en Moscú, Rusia, el 2 de marzo de 2024. (AP Foto)

Russian spymaster said opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes

Russia’s spymaster says that opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes, a statement that appears to reflect the Kremlin efforts to assuage international outrage over the death of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe.

FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The U.N. human rights chief called Monday, March 4, 2024, for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution" of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

UN rights chief urges end to ‘repression’ of independent voices in Russia after Navalny’s death

The U.N. human rights chief has called for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution” of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month.

ADDS NAME OF PERSON NAVALNY'S MOTHER-IN-LAW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, left, and his mother-in-law Alla Abrosimova visit the grave of Alexei Navalny after his yesterday funeral at the Borisovskoye Cemetery, in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was buried after a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence. (AP Photo)

Navalny’s mother brings flowers to his grave a day after thousands attended his funeral in Moscow

Lyudmila Navalnaya and Alla Abrosimova, the mother and mother-in-law of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were among mourners who brought flowers to his grave in Moscow a day after thousands turned his funeral into one of the largest recent displays of dissent.

Workers carry the coffin and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. (AP Photo)

Russians say final farewell at funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony.

FILE - In this handout photo taken from video provided by the Moscow City Court on Feb. 2, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows a heart symbol while standing in a defendants’ cage during a hearing in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia. Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16, spent months in punishment cells for infractions like not buttoning his uniform properly or not putting his hands behind his back when required. (Moscow City Court via AP, File)

Russians embrace hope amid despair as Alexei Navalny says his final goodbye

The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his compatrios.

Relatives and friends pay their last respects at the coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo)

Putin foe Alexei Navalny is buried in Moscow as thousands attend under a heavy police presence

Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow.

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny addresses the European Union's parliament on Wednesday Feb. 28, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. The grief-stricken widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny implored the 27-nation bloc to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The legislature often interrupted her speech with applause and lauded her efforts to keep the memory of Navalny alive. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be on Friday, spokesperson says

The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place on Friday in Moscow after several locations declined to host the service, his spokesperson says.

(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

What’s life like for Russia’s political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment

For political prisoners, life in Russia’s penal colonies and labor camps is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, insufficient food, poor health care, sleep deprivation and arbitrary rules that are impossible to obey.

This photo taken from video released by Russian Federal Penitentiary Service via SOTAVISION shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears via a video link from the Arctic penal colony in Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he is serving a 19-year sentence, in Kovrov, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2024. Shortly after Navalny's death was reported on Friday Feb. 16, 2024, the Russian SOTA social media channel shared images of the opposition politician reportedly in court yesterday. In the footage, Navalny is seen standing up and is laughing and joking with the judge via video link. (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service via SOTAVISION via AP)

Navalny aides say the Russian opposition leader was close to being freed before his death

Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say talks had been underway to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany.

A woman places a piece of paper with words of grief for Alexei Navalny paying the last respect to him at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. Navalny, 47, Russia's most well-known opposition politician, unexpectedly died on Feb. 16 in the penal colony, prompting hundreds of Russians across the country to stream to impromptu memorials with flowers and candles. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, aide says

An aide to Alexei Navalny says the body of the Russian opposition leader has been handed over to his mother.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

So many sanctions on Russia. How much impact do they really have?

The United States, United Kingdom and European Union are once again hitting Russia with new waves of sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Rain drops cover a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, placing between flowers in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. German parliament Bundestag is discussing about consequences of Navalny's dead at a prison on Friday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Ally of late Kremlin critic Navalny says authorities threaten to bury him on prison grounds

An ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that Russian authorities have given his mother a deadline to agree to forgo a public funeral or else they’ll bury him immediately on prison grounds.

In this grab taken from video provided by the Navalny Team on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya speaks during a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, 1937 km (1211 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia. The mother of Russia's top opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that investigators conducting a probe into her son's death have resorted to blackmail to try to persuade her to agree to his secret burial outside the public eye. (Navalny Team via AP)

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s mother says she’s resisting pressure to agree to a secret burial

The mother of Russia’s late opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that she has seen her son’s body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret burial outside the public eye.

This grab taken from video shows flowers and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, put to pay tribute to her son at the at the memorial to victims of political repression, in Salekhard, 1937 km (1211 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Russians across the vast country streamed to ad-hoc memorials with flowers and candles to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny, the most famous Russian opposition leader and the Kremlin's fiercest critic. Russian officials reported that Navalny, 47, died in prison on Friday. (AP Photo)

Alexei Navalny’s mother files lawsuit with a Russian court demanding release of her son’s body

The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit at a court in the Arctic city of Salekhard contesting officials’ refusal to release her son’s body.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News Channel town hall Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Greenville, S.C., as moderator Laura Ingraham listens. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Donald Trump again compares his criminal indictments to imprisonment and death of Putin’s top rival

Donald Trump is doubling down on comparing his criminal indictments to the circumstances of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

White House promises ‘major sanctions’ on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny’s death

The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death last week in an Arctic penal colony.

In this grab taken from video provided by the Navalny Team on Tuesday. Feb. 20, 2024, Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya speaks, near the prison colony in the town of Kharp, Russia. The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed to President Vladimir Putin to intervene and turn her son’s body over to her so she can bury him with dignity. Lyudmila Navalnaya, who has been trying to get his body since Saturday, appeared in a video outside the Arctic penal colony where Navalny died on Friday. (Navalny Team via AP)

Navalny’s mother appeals to Putin to release her son’s body so she can bury him with dignity

The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed to President Vladimir Putin to intervene and turn her son’s body over to her so she can bury him with dignity.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

In a post about dead Russian opposition leader Navalny, Trump talks of his own legal problems

Former President Donald Trump has mentioned Alexei Navalny’s death in a social media post more than 72 hours after the Russian opposition leader died in an Arctic penal colony.

Flowers and a photo of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are placed near the Russian consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia's prison agency said. He was 47. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Navalny’s widow vows to continue his fight against the Kremlin and punish Putin for his death

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has vowed to continue his fight against the Kremlin.

FILE This photo taken from video released by Russian Federal Penitentiary Service via SOTAVISION shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears via a video link from the Arctic penal colony in Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he is serving a 19-year sentence, in Kovrov, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2024. Shortly after Navalny's death was reported on Friday Feb. 16, 2024, the Russian SOTA social media channel shared images of the opposition politician reportedly in court yesterday. In the footage, Navalny is seen standing up and is laughing and joking with the judge via video link. (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service via SOTAVISION via AP, File)

Who are other Russian dissidents besides the late Alexei Navalny?

The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia’s political opposition.

A flower and a picture are left as a tribute to Russian politician Alexi Navalny, near to the Russian Embassy in London, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. Navalny, who crusaded against Russian corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia's prison agency said. He was 47. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Most of Russia’s opposition is either dead, in exile abroad or in prison at home. What happens now?

The Russian opposition lost its brightest star when politician Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony.

A woman places flowers as people pay tribute to Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. Russians across the vast country streamed to ad-hoc memorials with flowers and candles to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny, the most famous Russian opposition leader and the Kremlin's fiercest critic. Russian officials reported that Navalny, 47, died in prison on Friday. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Over 300 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin’s fiercest foe

A prominent rights group says over 300 people have been detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony.

A woman touches a photo of Alexei Navalny after laying flowers paying the last respect to him at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Death of Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny provokes Western outrage but few concrete actions to stop Putin

Following the death of chief Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny in a remote Arctic prison, Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an outpouring of anger from Western leaders.

A policeman guards as a young man lay flowers paying the last respect to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, near the historical the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) building, in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday morning, Feb. 17, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

In Russia’s Arctic, Alexei Navalny’s mother searches for her son’s body

For the mother of Alexei Navalny — the Russian opposition leader who died at age 47 in an Arctic penal colony — the journey to recover her son’s body was an odyssey with no clear destination.

A woman touches a photo of Alexei Navalny after laying flowers paying the last respect to him at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s team confirms his death and says his mother is searching for his body

Alexei Navalny’s spokesperson has confirmed that the Russian opposition leader died at a remote Arctic penal colony and says he was “murdered.”

Candles and a photo of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has died in a Russian prison, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service, are placed at the fence of the meanwhile closed Russian consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

With candles and flowers, thousands pay respects to Russia’s Navalny

With portraits, candles and flowers, thousands of people around the world paid their respects Friday to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after Russia’s prison agency announced he had died in an Arctic penal colony at age 47.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says Navalny’s reported death brings new urgency to the need for more US aid to Ukraine

President Joe Biden says that the apparent death of Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny brings new urgency to the need for Congress to approve tens of billions of dollars for Ukraine to stave off Moscow’s invasion.

A portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and flowers are pictured as people gather near to Russian embassy to France, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 in Paris. Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died in prison on Friday, a statement from the Federal Penitentiary Service said. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed over the years

Kremlin critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been attacked or killed in a variety of ways.