World leaders praise Alexei Navalny’s courage and blame Putin for his death

Kamala Harris, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz among those condemning Russian president after Navalny’s death in prison

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World leaders, senior western officials and Russian opposition figures have praised the courage of the jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, condemning his death and placing responsibility for it firmly on Vladimir Putin and his regime.

“Let us be clear, Russia is responsible,” the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, said at the annual Munich Security Conference where many leaders were gathered to bolster international unity against Russia’s two-year war on Ukraine.