The Finnish ambassador was not allowed to attend Navalny’s funeral – 2024-03-02 14:23:39

From the Finnish ambassador Antti Helanterää no opposition leader was allowed To Alexei Navalny to the funeral, says MTV Uutiset.

Department head of the Eastern Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Marja Liivala tells MTV Uutis that Helanterä was supposed to participate in the funeral ceremony at the Borisov cemetery, but according to his own announcement, he was not allowed in the area.

According to Liivala, it is difficult to assess why Helanterä was not allowed to participate.

Finland’s ambassador to Moscow, Antti Helanterä, photographed in 2022. aop/kimmo lights up

Thousands of people

Navalny was buried today, Friday. Numerous sources have confirmed that even thousands of people followed the opposition leader’s funeral procession in Moscow.

The event has even been characterized as the largest gathering of the Russian opposition since Navalny’s imprisonment in 2021.

Some of the mourners have also expressed their opinion Vladimir Putin against the regime, despite the high risk of being arrested.

– Putin is a murderer! Russia without Putin! has been shouted in the crowd.