Death of Alexeï Navalny: several European countries, including France, summon the Russian ambassador. The death of Alexei Navalny, 47, in a remote Arctic prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence after surviving a poisoning in 2020 for which he blamed the Kremlin, was announced on Friday.
He died after three years of detention. Westerners hold the Russian authorities responsible for this death. The British government, for its part, summoned diplomats from the Russian embassy on Friday evening.