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Alexei Navalny is buried at the Borisov Cemetery in Moscow. The family and thousands of people who spent many hours at the temple said goodbye to the politician, and after the funeral they went on foot to the cemetery. We collected photographs of how the farewell to the most famous Russian oppositionist took place.
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From the very morning, dozens of police cars were on duty at the “Assuage My Sorrows” church in Maryino, where the funeral service was taking place, communications were jammed, metal detectors and iron fences were installed. Thousands of people who came to say goodbye to Navalny were unable to get into the temple.
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The queue to the temple stretched for several kilometers.
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German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, US Ambassador Lynn Tracy and British Deputy Ambassador Tom Dodd came to pay tribute to Navalny at Navalny’s funeral.
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Ambassador of France to Russia Pierre Levy.
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Parents of Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Ivanovna and Anatoly Ivanovich, at the entrance to the temple where the funeral service took place.
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The coffin with the body of Alexei Navalny is carried by funeral service employees. On the eve of the funeral, the politician’s associates said that funeral services in Moscow had been ordered not to work at Navalny’s funeral. They had difficulty finding a hearse, and the politician’s family had to wait more than two hours for the body to be released from a morgue in the Moscow region on the day of the funeral.
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The funeral service for Alexei Navalny passed very quickly. The time for the ceremony was reduced by order from above, said Navalny’s ally Leonid Volkov, citing religious scholar Sergei Chapnin: “They put pressure on the rector of the church, Father Anatoly Rodionov, on the choir, and asked to hold the funeral service as quickly as possible so that no one gets there.”
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People gathered at the temple saw off the hearse with the body of the politician, throwing flowers and chanting the name of Alexei. After the coffin with Navalny’s body was taken out of the temple, thousands of people followed the hearse to the Borisov cemetery.
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Mothers of Alexei and Yulia Navalny at the Borisov cemetery.
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At approximately 16:00, the coffin with the body of Alexei Navalny began to be lowered into the grave to the song “My Way” by Frank Sinatra. The funeral took place to the final theme from his favorite movie, Terminator 2.
After the ceremony ended, those wishing to say goodbye to the politician were finally allowed into the cemetery. There was a huge line on the way from the temple to the entrance to the cemetery.
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Three hours after the funeral, those wishing to say goodbye and pay tribute to Alexei Navalny continue to go to the cemetery, although it has already become dark in Moscow. Lanterns began to be lit in the crowd, Sota reports. There are still a lot of people.
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