Videos sent by friends from Moscow show Lubyanka Square, where state security forces have been located for over a hundred years, and in front of it the Solovetsky Stone, erected in 1990 by the Memorial Society as a monument to the victims of political repression. The entire square is covered in snow, police officers trample across the square, and the stone is covered with flowers. This is what it looks like for the third day now, and the flow of people with flowers doesn’t stop. In metro cars going to Lubyanka there are people with flowers and they look at each other, it is clear that they all want to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny. In previous years, he himself came here on October 29, on the eve of Political Prisoners’ Day, to join Muscovites in reading out the names of those who were shot in Moscow during Stalin’s terror.
The writer Irina Scherbakova on the death of Alexei Navalny – Culture
