"Russian Cities Remove Tributes to Alexei Navalny as Police Watch"

Floral tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, were removed from Russian cities by unidentified groups while police watched, leading to over 100 detentions across the country. Navalny, who died in a Russian penal colony, had been a vocal critic of Putin and had been jailed since January 2021 after surviving nerve agent poisoning. His wife, Yulia Navalnaya, made a dramatic appearance at a security conference in Germany, expressing doubt about the official Russian reports of his death. International leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, condemned Navalny's death and held Putin responsible.