Alexei Navalny’s body turned over to his mother for burial in Russia

Asserting the breakthrough, Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s press secretary, stated it was not clear whether or not authorities would intervene within the funeral preparations.

Lyudmila Navalnaya, the opposition chief’s mom, has stated that her want is for him to be flown to Moscow, enabling a public farewell service, as is conventional in Russia, a funeral and his burial on the Troyekurovskoy cemetery, the place many outstanding Russians together with opposition figures, have been buried.

Earlier, Navalnaya stated that Russia’s Investigative Committee had pressed her to conform to a small personal funeral, with solely relations current.

“The funeral continues to be to come back. We don’t know if the authorities will stop it from being held the way in which the household desires and the way in which Alexei deserves. We are going to report data because it turns into obtainable,” Yarmysh stated.

Navalny, 47, died out of the blue in an Arctic Russian jail colony on Feb. 16, penitentiary officers stated, eradicating probably the most outstanding determine inside Russia prepared to problem the Kremlin’s rule.