The funeral for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be on Friday in Moscow, his spokeswoman says

2024-02-28 10:02:01

MOSCOW (AP) — The funeral for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will be held Friday in Moscow, according to his spokeswoman.

The funeral will be held in a church in the Maryino district, southeast of Moscow, on Friday afternoon, Kira Yarmysh said. The burial will take place in a nearby cemetery.

Navalny died in mid-February in one of the harshest prisons in Russia.

Russian authorities indicated that the cause of the death of the 47-year-old politician is still unknown, and noted that the results of their investigation will surely be questioned abroad. Many Western leaders have already blamed the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, for his death.

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