Russia Navalny's death anniversary: Russians lay flowers at his grave
One year after the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison camp, many Moscow citizens have laid flowers at the grave of the Kremlin critic at the Borisovskoye cemetery. The police granted them access, but the mourners were filmed by officers, according to independent media reports. Among the visitors to the grave were foreign diplomats, including US Ambassador Lynne Tracy and EU Ambassador Roland Galharague.
16.02.2025, 10:24
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Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, wrote on Instagram that there had not been a day this year when she had not thought about Navalny, laughed with him, consulted with him internally, but also discussed things with him. "I love you very much, I miss you very much, I miss you so much."
Navalny was the best-known opponent of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. In 2020, he was poisoned during a visit to Siberia to prepare for regional elections. After he was flown to Germany in a coma for treatment, the Berlin Charité hospital diagnosed a nerve agent as the cause. The Russian government denied any involvement in the attack.
On his return to Moscow, Navalny was detained at the airport and taken into custody for violating reporting requirements from an earlier trial. Russian courts later sentenced him to nine years in prison for alleged embezzlement and insulting a judge. After a further trial for extremism, the prison sentence was increased to 19 years, which he was to serve in a penal camp in the Arctic Circle. Navalny was only 47 years old at the time of his death.
