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KHARP, Russia (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny’s mother was told on Saturday that Russia’s most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by “sudden death syndrome” and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said. Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, fell unconscious and died on Friday…

Alexei Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in Kharp. | World News

A Russian priest was detained outside of his home in Russia after announcing he would hold a public memorial service following the death of Putin-critic Alexei Navalny.

Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in Kharp, about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he was serving a three-decade sentence.

The Russian president despised the popular opposition figure and security forces will ensure his mourners are arrested “and then everything will die out”.

In Russia, the battle to eradicate the opposition leader and his legacy looks likely to continue long after his death

The prosecutors office in the Russian capital said that it was aware of calls online "to take part in a mass rally in the centre of Moscow". | World News

Pictures showed the 71-year-old President and former KGB spy animated and merrily meeting workers at a factory in Chelyabinsk, in Russias Ural mountains.

Moscow on Friday warned people against taking to the streets to protest, hours after the death of leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Supporters of Alexei Navalny are laying flowers in Russia and at Russian embassies around the world after the jailed Kremlin critic was announced dead by the Russian prison service on Friday.