Alexei Navalny Buried in Moscow

Facts

• Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader, was buried at Borisovskoye Cemetery on Friday after a religious service at a Russian Orthodox church in Moscow's Maryino neighborhood.¹
• While only a small group of people, mostly his close relatives, were allowed inside the church, thousands gathered to bid Navalny farewell and shout anti-Putin slogans amid heavy police presence.²
• The church was reportedly ordered to rush his funeral services to avoid a mass public event, while eyewitnesses alleged that apparent provocateurs in the crowd urged mourners to march on the Kremlin.³
• According to monitoring group OVD-Info, over 100 people, including 10 in Moscow, had been detained nationwide for paying tribute to the slain leader on Friday.⁴
• Initially planned for Thursday, the funeral was postponed because funeral homes in Moscow allegedly refused to handle services the same day Pres. Vladimir Putin was scheduled to address the Russian parliament.⁵
• Navalny died in a remote Arctic penal colony two weeks ago. Officials claim he died from natural causes, with regional authorities claiming to have found 'no significant' rights violations in the prison.⁶

Sources: ¹RT International, ²BBC News, ³Meduza, ⁴CNN, ⁵The Moscow Times and ⁶New York Times.

Narratives

• Pro-Russia narrative, as provided by Pravda EN. It's outrageous, though not surprising, that fellow Russians who attended the funeral of extremist Navalny in Moscow shouted Ukrainian Nazi slogans in blatant disrespect for soldiers fighting for the nation on the front. This isn't democracy or freedom but only treason and open hostility against Russia.