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People continue to mourn Navalny at the cemetery in Moscow
Thousands of people said goodbye to Alexei Navalny’s funeral in Moscow on Friday amid a heavy police presence. photo
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The day after Alexei Navalny’s funeral in Moscow, people continue to say goodbye to the Russian opposition leader. The situation at the cemetery was calm, but there were also arrests in the country.
After the funeral of the Kremlin opponent who died in the prison camp Despite the police presence, people continued to say goodbye to Alexei Navalny today at his grave in the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow. Police allowed mourners to linger unhindered at the grave and lay flowers, independent Russian media reported.
Pictures of the grave site showed a sea of flowers and wreaths – and a Russian Orthodox cross with a photo of a smiling Alexei Navalny. According to authorities, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s opponent died on February 16 in a prison camp in the polar region.
Navalny’s team doesn’t want to give up
Navalny’s team emphasized again on Friday evening after the funeral that the fight of the opposition, who had fled into exile abroad, against corruption and Putin’s power apparatus would continue. Navalny’s legacy will remain alive “as long as there are millions of people in Russia and the world who are not indifferent to it. That is why we must not give up.”
On the day of Navalny’s funeral, there were mourning events across the country and dozens of arrests. The civil rights portal ovd.info reported this morning that the number of arrests was more than 100, spread across 20 cities, including around 20 people in Novosibirsk alone.
Thousands come to the funeral service
In Moscow, thousands of people gathered at the church and cemetery for the funeral service on Friday. Many chanted “Putin is a murderer!” and “Russia without Putin.” Relatives, supporters and human rights activists accuse Putin of murdering his opponent in the prison camp.
According to authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in the penal camp with the unofficial name “Arctic Wolf” in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal. The circumstances of his death are not clear. The politician, who was weakened by a poison attack in 2020 and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison yard and died despite attempts to resuscitate him. According to Navalny’s team, the death certificate mentions “natural” causes.