The mom of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny visited his grave on Saturday, a day after 1000’s of Russians risked arrest to pay tribute to the anti-corruption activist at his funeral.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic in additional than a decade, died final month in a jail colony within the Arctic, the place he was serving a 19-year jail sentence on costs of “extremism” largely seen as political retaliation for his defiance towards the Kremlin.
His mom, Lyudmila Navalnaya, visited his grave, which was coated in flowers and wreaths, on the Borisovo cemetery in southern Moscow early on Saturday morning, AFP journalists noticed.
She was accompanied by Alla Abrosimova, the mom of Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya.
Yulia Navalnaya, the couple's two youngsters and Navalny's brother all reside overseas and didn’t attend the funeral, the place they might have been arrested for their very own opposition to Putin.
Yulia Navalnaya has vowed to proceed her husband's work and stated Putin “killed” Navalny.
AFP journalists on Saturday noticed a trickle of mourners laying flowers at his grave and a continued police presence on the cemetery, near the banks of the Moskva River.
Hundreds of Navalny supporters queued for hours on Friday to pay their respects to the 47-year-old.
As they streamed from a close-by church to the cemetery, some chanted “No to battle!” and different pro-Navalny slogans, together with branding Putin a “assassin” and calling for the discharge of political prisoners.
The human rights monitoring group OVD-Data stated Russian police arrested at the very least 128 individuals attending a tribute to Navalny in 19 cities on Friday.
Scenes of 1000’s marching in assist of Navalny, demanding an finish to Russia's offensive in Ukraine and shelling the Kremlin haven’t been seen in Russia because the first days after Moscow despatched a whole bunch of 1000’s of troops throughout the border in February 2022.
The Kremlin has cracked down on dissent and used strict navy censorship legal guidelines to prosecute a whole bunch of people that have publicly spoken out towards the marketing campaign.
