Vigils for Navalny are held in cities, including Paris and Frankfurt, Germany. G7 foreign ministers meeting in Munich held a minute's silence for Navalny on Saturday, while US President Joe Biden explicitly blamed Putin. Navalny died on Friday when he lost consciousness after having "felt bad after a walk," Russia's federal penitentiary service said. One of his lawyers, Leonid Solovyov, told the Novaya Gazeta newspaper that Navalny was "normal" when another lawyer saw him on Wednesday. In footage of a court hearing from his prison colony on Thursday, Navalny was seen smiling and joking.

Source: The Standard February 18, 2024 19:51 UTC