Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s funeral to be held in Moscow on Friday

Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose death on February 16 in an Arctic penal colony sent shockwaves through the world, will be buried in Moscow on Friday (March 1), said his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, after efforts to obtain a hall allowing the anti-corruption activist’s supporters to bid farewell to him failed. Navalny died in one of Russia’s harshest penal facilities and the circumstances remain unknown.Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose death on February 16 in an Arctic penal colony sent shockwaves through the world, will be buried in Moscow on Friday (March 1), said his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, after efforts to obtain a hall allowing the anti-corruption activist’s supporters to bid farewell to him failed. Navalny died in one of Russia’s harshest penal facilities and the circumstances remain unknown.

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