USA Today
By Kim Hjelmgaard
March 13, 2024
A long-time ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was attacked with a hammer and tear gas while in his car outside his home near Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said late Tuesday.
The assailant’s identity and the motive for the assault on Leonid Volkov were not clear, but it came about a month after Navalny’s unexplained death in a remote Arctic penal colony. A fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Navalny was serving a 19-year prison term on extremism charges widely seen as politically motivated.