The Russian opponent will be shot in a church in the southeast of the city and later buried in a nearby cemetery. Navalny’s widow fears arrests will be ordered. The Kremlin wanted to prevent the funeral from coinciding with Putin’s speech in parliament next Thursday.
The environment of the Russian opponent Alexei Navalnywho died on February 16 while serving a 30-year sentence in an Arctic Circle prison, reported today that the dissident will be discharged and buried this FridayMarch 1 in Moscow.
His spokesperson, Kira Yarmish, stated this in a message broadcast through his account on the social network funeral at 2 p.m (local time) at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, located in the Mariino district. “Come quickly,” he assured.
His relatives had been complaining for two days about the difficulties in finding a space to publicly say goodbye to the opponent.
The burning chapel will be installed in the Cathedral of Mariino district in Moscowin the southeast of the city, and that Navalny will be buried at the Borisov Cemetery, in the same area.
Another close aide to Navalny, Iván Zhdanov, recalled They initially planned organize their funerals February 29. “But it turns out that on February 29, not a single person is available to dig a grave. That it is possible on February 28 and March 1, but the graves will not be dug on February 29,” he wrote in X. .
According to Zhdanov, the Kremlin has refused to celebrate the day because it coincides with the Russian president’s State of the Nation address. Vladimir Putin. The Russian government believes the funeral could quickly spark protests against the president.
The announcement comes on the day that Navalni’s widow, Julia Navalnayahas appeared on the European Chamber. Navalnaya has said her late husband’s body is “corrupt” and that he was tortured for three years on Putin’s orders. Regarding the funeral, she warned that they still do not know whether the police will arrest “those who come to say their last goodbyes” to her husband.
Finally, he believed that the Russian president “must be responsible for what he did to Russia, Ukraine and Navalny.”
Source: EITB
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