Navalny's associates announced the place and date of the Russian oppositionist's funeral
Kyiv • UNN
Alexei Navalny's funeral will be held on March 1 in a Moscow temple.
The funeral of Alexei Navalny, who died in the polar colony of rf on February 16, will be held on March 1 at Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow. This was announced by the ex-press-secretary of Alexei Navalny Kira Yarmysh in the network X, reports UNN.
Alexei Navalny's funeral will be held at the Church of the Mother of God icon "Quench My Sorrows" in Maryino on March 1 at 14:00
The day before it became known that Navalny's associates could not find a hall in Moscow to hold a farewell ceremony for the politician - funeral agencies and venues refused to provide such a service.
Some organizations said that the premises were occupied, while others refused to provide services at the mention of Navalny. At the same time, it is stated that a "large normal hall" for Navalny's farewell was found in Novokosino (a district in Moscow, located in the Eastern Administrative District), and yet the conclusion of the contract "did not take place.
Reference
Alexei Navalny has been in a Russian colony since February 2021, when a court replaced his suspended sentence in the 2014 Yves Rocher case with a real one at the request of the federal penal service.
In August 2023, he was found guilty of creating a so-called "extremist community" and sentenced to 19 years. Alexei Navalny died on February 16 in the special regime colony "Polar Wolf" in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
His death report said that the politician died of natural causes. No other details are given.
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