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Mourners at Navalny's grave: "Don't give up"
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Maxim Shipenkov / EPA
After the funeral of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, people continued to say goodbye to him at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow on Saturday, despite a police presence.
Police allowed mourners to linger unhindered at the grave and lay flowers, independent Russian media reported.
Pictures of the grave site showed a sea of flowers and wreaths - and a Russian Orthodox cross with a photo of a smiling Alexei Navalny.
Navalny's team emphasized on Friday evening after the funeral that the fight of the opposition who had fled abroad against corruption and Putin's power apparatus would continue.
Navalny's legacy will remain alive "as long as there are millions of people in Russia and the world who are not indifferent to it.
That’s why you can’t give up.”
On the day of Navalny's funeral, Russians took to the streets across the country to mourn.
According to the non-governmental organization OWD-Info, the police took 128 people into custody in 19 cities - 31 of them in Novosibirsk alone.
Big doubts about authorities' information
It has been around two weeks since the news of Navalny's death became known.
The management of the prison north of the Arctic Circle had reported that Navalny, who was imprisoned there, had collapsed while taking a walk; the death certificate later stated that he died from "natural causes".
His supporters and many international observers have serious doubts about this version.
What caused horror was that Navalny's relatives had to search for his body for days after his death and were later harassed and blackmailed by representatives of the state apparatus.
According to mother Lyudmila Navalnaya, the Kremlin wanted Navalny to be buried secretly.
He had opposed this during his lifetime.
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