February 24, 2026 A New Report on Alexey Navalny’s Death Boris Kagarlitsky and hundreds of unknown political prisoners remain in Russia’s prisons. Ad Policy A photograph of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny at a vigil in front of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, on February 18, 2024.(Alex Nicodim / Anadolu via Getty Images) Alexey Navalny’s death in a Russian prison came from a deadly poison.