DThe mother of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalnyj, who died in custody, received his body from the authorities. Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysch announced this on the X platform on Saturday. She thanked “everyone who demanded this with us.” Relatives and supporters of the opposition activist had been calling on the Russian leadership for days to hand over the dead man so that he might be given a humane burial.
She doesn’t yet know whether “the authorities will prevent the process (of the funeral service) from taking place as the family wants and as Alexei deserves,” Yarmysch continued. “We will announce information regarding it when they come in. Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother, is still in Salekhard in northern Russia, Yarmysh said. The funeral should now be prepared.
Only in the morning did Navalny’s widow and daughter demand that the 47-year-old’s remains be returned. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who describes himself as a devout Christian, mocks the remains of the dead man and displays “open satanism,” said widow Yulia Navalnaya in a video message published on Saturday. “Hand over Alexei. They tortured him alive and continue to torture him dead,” she said. “They break every human and divine law.”
“Give Grandma my father’s body.”
“Give grandma my father’s body,” wrote Navalnyj’s daughter Darya on the social network X on Saturday. Her grandmother Lyudmila Navalnaya said in a video on Thursday that Putin’s authorities wanted to force her to attend a secret funeral and threatened to harm the body. Navalny’s widow accused Putin of continuing to torment Alexei’s mother and wanting to break her. According to Yarmysh, Russian investigators threatened to bury Navalny’s body on the grounds of the penal colony where he died if his family did not agree to a secret burial.
Although Putin poses in Russian Orthodox churches with a candle in his hand and kisses icons, he is actually driven by hatred and a desire for revenge, said Yulia Navalnaya. “No, it’s not even hatred, it’s Satanism, paganism.” But faith is regarding goodness, regarding mercy, regarding redemption. “And no true Christian might ever do what Putin is doing now with dead Alexei.”
The death of Navalnyj, who had been imprisoned in Russia for years, was announced on Friday last week. He died in a penal camp in the Arctic Circle at the age of 47. Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, only gained access to his body on Thursday.
The death of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s most prominent adversary caused international consternation. In addition to Navalny’s widow, numerous Western politicians blame the Russian leadership and Putin personally for his death. Moscow rejected the allegations.
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