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TOPSHOT - A portrait of Alexei Navalny, candles and flowers are left at a memorial in Paris on February 16, 2024, after the announcement that the Kremlin's most prominent critic had died in an Arctic prison. Russia's top opposition politician Alexei Navalny died on February 16, 2024 at the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term. His death after three years in detention and a poisoning which he blamed on the Kremlin deprives Russia's opposition of its figurehead at time of intense repression and Moscow's campaign in Ukraine. (Photo by Ian LANGSDON / AFP) (Photo by IAN LANGSDON/AFP via Getty Images)