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Images of the exterior of the IK-3 penal colony, which houses a hospital where jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was transferred. The EU has warned Russia it would hold Moscow "responsible" for the state of his health. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, meets Charles Michel, President of the European Council, in Brussels. The 47-year-old Kremlin critic died in an Arctic prison on February 16 after spending more than three years behind bars, prompting outrage and condemnation from Western leaders and his supporters. IMAGES
A Russian court on Friday sentenced jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 19 additional years behind bars on extremism charges. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin's main political opponent, Alexei Navalny, goes on trial from inside prison, in a new fraud case that could see his jail time extended by more than a decade. A video link shows Navalny dressed in prison uniform at the makeshift court inside his penal colony, speaking to his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, while guards stand on either side of them. IMAGES