Alexey Navalny's team confirms his death, calls for body to be returned

Alexey Navalny was murdered', said a spokesperson for the Putin critic after his mother was officially notified.

Yarmysh cited an employee of the Polar Wolf Arctic penal colony where the 47-year-old was serving a 19-year sentence as saying his body was picked up by investigators from Russia's Investigative Committee and was now in the town of Salekhard.

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