2024-02-29 12:33:44
The funeral for Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a prison in Russia’s Arctic region in the middle of this month, will be held in the capital Moscow on March 1. A close aide said on the 28th,announcementdid.
Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s publicist, announced that Navalny’s funeral will be held at an Orthodox church in Moscow’s Maryino district on March 1 at 2pm local time (8pm Japan time). After the funeral, his body will be buried at the Borisovskoye Cemetery. Jarmuis advised his supporters and mourners to arrive early. His entourage was having trouble finding a place to hold the funeral.
As an opposition leader, Navalny ran a campaign that fiercely criticized the corruption of the Russian government, the country’s ruling class, and President Vladimir Putin.Navalny was poisoned with a highly poisonous nerve agent.Attempted poisoning incidentAlthough he survived, he was imprisoned immediately after returning to Russia, which shocked many people.
Navalny died on the 16th of this month at the age of 47 while serving his sentence in a remote Arctic prison. Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison, said to be Russia’s harshest, has sparked condemnation around the world, with suspicions that President Vladimir Putin ordered the dissident’s death. called. Suspicions were further deepened by reports that Navalny was about to be released as part of a prisoner swap. There was widespread speculation that President Putin did not want to allow Navalny to be released. Russian authorities have denied any suspicions of foul play surrounding Navalny’s death or that it occurred shortly before a prisoner swap. The cause of death was claimed to be natural causes.
His mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, complained that Russian authorities denied her access to her son’s body and pressured her into agreeing to a “secret” burial. She also said her death certificate listed her as having died of natural causes.
It is unclear whether his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, will attend the funeral and burial in Moscow. Unlike Navalny, who has insisted that she cannot lead her movement from outside the country, Yuliya fled Russia after the attempted poisoning of her husband, and she is reportedly still in exile in Germany. ing.
Yulia publicly accuses the Russian government of murdering her husband and concealing the cause of his death. She vowed that she would continue her husband’s campaign against the Putin regime and that she fought for a free Russia. If Yulia returns home, having inherited her late husband’s wishes, she could become a target for retaliation by the Russian government.
Yulia holds President Vladimir Putin responsible for her husband’s death and is lobbying European leaders to impose new sanctions on the Russian government.
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