‘Mourners in Moscow laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’

Issued on: 17/02/2024 – 08:51Modified: 17/02/2024 – 08:59 01:55 Photographs and flowers are left outside the Russian Embassy in London on February 16, 2024, following the news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. © Daniel Leal, AFP Despite warnings against public gatherings, mourners in Moscow laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for […]

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Feb 19, 2024 - 18:03
‘Mourners in Moscow laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’

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Photographs and flowers are left outside the Russian Embassy in London on February 16, 2024, following the news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Photographs and flowers are left outside the Russian Embassy in London on February 16, 2024, following the news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. © Daniel Leal, AFP

Despite warnings against public gatherings, mourners in Moscow laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. While the reaction in Russia was muted, protesters in other cities did not pull their punches. In corners of the world with a large, emigrant Russian population, people gathered to protest, accusing Moscow of orchestrating his death less than a month before an election that will give President Putin another six years in power.  

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