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  • Mourners chant 'Navalny' as coffin carried past

    • Church ringed by crash barriers, police

    • Parents kiss his face for last time

MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny's name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday.

In video streamed from the Borisovskyoe cemetery, Navalny's mother Lyudmila and father Anatoly stooped over his open coffin to kiss him for the last time as a small group of musicians played.

Crossing themselves, mourners stepped forward to caress his face before a priest gently placed a white shroud over him and the coffin was closed.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic inside Russia, died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16., sparking accusations from his supporters that he had been murdered. The Kremlin has denied any state involvement in his death.

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[-] andshit@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

No sure about that. While he was alive he could do things/get stuff done to him which would get reported in the news. Getting poisoned by Novichok, getting arrested in a Russian airport, disappearing and reappearing in an Arctic gulag -- all of these things show up in the news cycle, giving us constant reminders of the how bad it is in Russia. Now that he's a martyr, I guess his name will disappear from headlines until maybe the anniversary of his death.

[-] avater@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

all of these things show up in the news cycle, giving us constant reminders of the how bad it is in Russia

they started a war in 2014...that's enough of a reminder how fucked up Russia is. And I don't know if we, the collective west, need a reminder or wake up call. It's the majority of russians who need to stop following that cunt putin and start a movement from the inside of Russia to end this madness, but it seems that's not the case...

So I don't know what he wanted to show by returning to Russia or if it was a wise move, especially while he was a husband and a father.

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