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A day after the funeral on Friday of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, people continued on Saturday to bid farewell to the Russian dissident at his grave in Moscow's Borisov cemetery, undeterred by the presence of police. Independent Russian media reported that the police allowed the mourners to stay unhindered at the grave and lay flowers. Pictures of the gravesite showed a sea of flowers and wreaths, and a Russian Orthodox cross with a photo of a smiling Navalny. According to the authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in a prison camp in the Yamal region, 1,900 kilometres north-east of Mosc......

Thousands of people defiantly bade an emotional farewell on Friday to Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died two weeks ago in an Arctic prison, at times unable to contain their anger at the authorities they blamed for his death. At the church dedicated to the "Assuage My Sorrows" icon of the Mother of God in Moscow's south-eastern Maryino district on Friday, mourners carrying flowers crowded around metal bars to bid farewell to the opposition leader. In the church, pictures of Navalny's body in the open coffin, covered in flowers and surrounded by numerous people during the service wer......

The team of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in custody, has called on people to attend the funeral service and burial of the leading opposition figure in Moscow on Friday, despite the expected police presence. The church service is planned for 2 pm (1100 GMT), with the burial at the Borisov cemetery scheduled for two hours later, Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh announced on Thursday. Everyone to whom Navalny's political work meant something should attend, she said. The walk from the church, which is dedicated to the "Assuage My Sorrows" icon of the Mother of God, to the cemetery ......

The team of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic opponent, said it plans to organize a public memorial service in Moscow by Friday. "We are looking for a hall for Alexei's public farewell," Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Monday on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The planned date is the end of the current working week, she added. Navalny died suddenly on February 16 in the prison camp with the unofficial name "Polar Wolf" in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal, Russian authorities said. The circumstances of h......

Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny is now in a penal camp in northern Russia after going missing for more than two weeks, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh says on X. He had once again failed to appear at a court hearing via video link on December 18, aides said, heightening fears about his fate. President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken critic had not been seen by his lawyers for almost two weeks prior to the planned hearing. Russian government authorities had refused to disclose where he was or fully explain his absence. It now transpires he has been transferred from the IK-6 penal colony east of Mo......

Washington (AFP) - The United States on Saturday voiced deepening concern over the fate of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has not been heard from since early December. "We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Alexei Navalny, who has now been missing in Russia's prison system for nearly three weeks," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on X, the former Twitter.  "We once more call for his immediate release and an end to the continued repression of independent voices in Russia." On Monday, UN rights expert Mariana Katzarova joined a chorus of voices expressi......