More than 100 arrests at Navalny mourning rallies. In ten Russian cities, people laid flowers for Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in custody.
The police stopped the commemoration and took harsh action against the mourners. People mostly chose monuments to victims of the political repression under Stalin as places to express their mourning. The death of the opposition politician, who returned to Russia in 2021 after a poison attack despite the threat of imprisonment, caused consternation in many countries. Politicians accused Putin and the Russian justice system of political murder.