Hundreds of Navalny Mourners Detained Across Russia
At least 400 people have been detained across Russia since Aleksei Navalny’s death, a rights group reported. Those who came to lay flowers found solace in the company of others.
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At least 400 people have been detained across Russia since Aleksei Navalny’s death, a rights group reported. Those who came to lay flowers found solace in the company of others.
Police officers escorted and detained people who were paying tribute to Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure, who died in a prison colony.
A spokeswoman for the team that has continued Mr. Navalny’s work said his mother had received the official notification. Hundreds of his mourners have been detained after his death.
The Kremlin’s fiercest critic, whose work brought arrests, attacks and a near-fatal poisoning in 2020, had spent months in isolation.
President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back against skepticism of a Ukraine victory, calling on world leaders not to ask when the war would end, but why Russia was still able to wage it.
An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the Kremlin from behind bars cost him his life.
A straight-talking former real estate lawyer, he stayed relevant even from prison, pleading with Russians not to give up or give in to their fears and railing against the “criminal” war in Ukraine.
An interview with the anti-corruption leader brought out his vintage wit and smarts, but also his fearlessness about his favorite theme.
Aleksei Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia while enduring arrests, assaults and a near-fatal poisoning, died Friday in a Russian prison. He was 47.
The death of Aleksei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most vocal domestic opponent, prompted fresh criticism on Friday of the right-wing host’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin.