2024-03-01 22:48 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang/Reporting in real time
Russian opposition figure Navalny died in prison in the Arctic Circle in mid-February. His funeral was held in a church in the capital Moscow on the 1st and broadcast live on his YouTube channel. Despite a heavy police presence, thousands of people came to bid him farewell.
The Associated Press reported that before Navalny’s funeral, his family and team had a series of disputes with the authorities over the return of the body, including the authorities’ initial use of the body to “blackmail” Navalny’s mother into agreeing to a private funeral, and several The church refused to hold funerals and so on.
Although Navalny’s team eventually found a church, it was still surrounded by crowd control barricades placed by police. When the pallbearers moved the coffin out of the hearse and into the church, the crowd waiting outside burst into applause. Some then shouted “Navalny! Navalny!” and others shouted “You are not afraid, and neither are we.” “, “Say no to war!” and “Russia without Putin” and other slogans.
According to reports, diplomats from Western countries, including U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy, as well as opposition figures Boris Nadezhdin and Yekaterina Duntsova, who were rejected from running in the Russian presidential election, were present. funeral.
Photos of the interior of the church obtained from the media showed that the coffin containing Navalny’s body was open and filled with red and white flowers. Navalny’s mother was sitting next to him holding a candle. His father was also reported to have attended the funeral, but it is not clear who else from his family showed up; his widow Lyudmila Navalnaya just two days ago Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Her daughter is studying at Stanford University in the United States, but her son’s whereabouts are unknown.
According to reports, in Frank. Sinatra’s “My Way” song and the melody of the movie “Terminator 2” theme song, Navalny has been buried in Borisovsky Cemetery. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged people gathering in Moscow and elsewhere not to violate the law, saying any unauthorized mass gatherings were illegal.
Russian opposition figure Navalny died in Arctic Circle prison in mid-February. The funeral was held in a church in the capital Moscow on the 1st. Although… The funeral of the late Russian opposition figure Navalny was held in a church in the capital Moscow on the 1st. Held, attended by parents, others… Ukraine Russia Russia-Ukraine War Navalny’s Funeral Moscow Putin
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