The UK government said it had summoned Russian embassy diplomats “to make clear that we hold the Russian authorities fully responsible” for the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Russian officials announced the 47-year-old had died on Friday in an Arctic prison, a month before an election poised to extend President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power.
“In recent years, the authorities imprisoned him on fabricated charges, poisoned him with a banned nerve agent, and sent him to an Arctic penal colony,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said late Friday.
