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FirstUp: Alexei Navalny’s funeral, Iran elections… Today’s big stories

Today, Russia will see the burial of Opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Iran will hold parliamentary and legislative elections. In India, Modi will launch BJP’s poll campaign in West Bengal and the three-day pre-wedding festivities of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant will begin in Jamnagar

Did KGB-style punch to the heart kill Alexei Navalny?

It’s been five days since Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony, where he was serving a 19-year prison sentence. However, the cause of his death still remains unknown. Now, a human rights activist claims that a single blow to the heart, a technique used by KGB operatives, is the likely reason for the dissident’s demise

Enigma of death grips Russia as son of ‘Only Man Putin Trusts’ dies mysteriously of same reason as Alexei Navalny

Ivan Sechin, son of Igor Sechin, was believed to be in good health. He died in his mansion in the elite Europe-1 village in Krasnogorsk close to Moscow

Was Alexei Navalny poisoned? Russia’s dubious history of chemical attacks

Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has accused the Kremlin of poisoning her husband with the deadly nerve agent Novichok. Russia has allegedly been using chemicals as a tool to harm its political dissidents, enemies and defectors for at least a century

Indian food to books, what Navalny's letters say about his last days in prison

The Kremlin critic sent hundreds of handwritten letters to his friends and supporters. People could also write to him via a website that charged 40 cents a page and receive scans of his responses

Alexei Navalny's body to be held for 2 weeks for 'chemical analysis,' Russian authorities inform family

Navalny's mother Lyudmila has been told by authorities that his son's body is being held for 'chemical analysis,' one of his representatives said

Alexei Navalny's last walk and the haunting legacy of Russia's Arctic Circle Prison

The “Arctic Circle Prison”, or the “Polar Wolf” was officially named FKU IK-3 and is a men’s maximum security corrective colony located in the town of Kharp located in the Priuralsky district in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Why Alexei Navalny terrified Vladimir Putin to the core

Alexei Navalny was a giant figure in Russian politics. What made Navalny so important was his decision to become an anti-corruption crusader in 2008

Navalny echoes at EU foreign ministers’ meet in Brussels as bloc mulls having army, calls Putin ‘murderer’

Estonia’s foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a 'murderer'. Meanwhile, Russia rejected the West’s reaction to Alexei Navalny’s death as 'absolutely unacceptable'

Where is Alexei Navalny’s body? 3 days after death, the mystery continues

Three days after his death, the body of Alexei Navalny has not been handed over to his family. A report in Novaya Gazeta Europe, an independent news outlet, says that the corpse is at a morgue of a hospital in the city of Salekhard, which is an hour away from the prison where the Putin critic died. The body had bruises on it