• Mourners chant ‘Navalny’ as coffin carried past

    • Church ringed by crash barriers, police

    • Parents kiss his face for last time

MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday.

In video streamed from the Borisovskyoe cemetery, Navalny’s mother Lyudmila and father Anatoly stooped over his open coffin to kiss him for the last time as a small group of musicians played.

Crossing themselves, mourners stepped forward to caress his face before a priest gently placed a white shroud over him and the coffin was closed.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic inside Russia, died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16., sparking accusations from his supporters that he had been murdered. The Kremlin has denied any state involvement in his death.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
      133·
      9 months ago

      There’s a lot of places where one could discuss the merits of politics of individuals, however not when discussing their funeral.

      That’s just common decency.

      • endhits@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, that’s nice if you’re a child or an old lady at a funeral that is trying to excuse her husband’s affiliation with the Klan, but that’s not how the real world works.

    • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      he changed a lot after that. Not gonna calling him a saint but since then he stepped back from a lot he said in the past.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

      Not saying he’s a saint or whatever, but he was working in the right direction and people’s views change over time.