Amongst these detained was a neighborhood marketing campaign coordinator for Boris Nadezhdin, the presidential hopeful who was disqualified from working in opposition to Russian chief Vladimir Putin in a vote later this month.
Nadezhdin, who attracted crowds of supporters by criticizing Russia’s battle in opposition to Ukraine, has mentioned he’ll attend the funeral. Yekaterina Duntsova, one other opposition politician who was additionally disqualified from the electoral race, has additionally mentioned she will likely be current. The outcomes of the election to be held later this month are a foregone conclusion, with Putin sure to win once more.
Since his sudden dying in a penal colony north of the Arctic circle in February, Navalny’s workforce says it has confronted fixed obstruction from the Russian authorities.
The workforce has accused authorities of refusing to launch Navalny’s physique after which pressuring venues in Moscow to not stage his funeral.
As late as Thursday, on the eve of the funeral, Navalny’s spokesperson mentioned they may not discover a hearse to convey Navalny’s physique to the Church of the Icon of Our Woman Quench My Sorrows within the neighborhood of Maryino, the place the service is about to start out at 2 p.m. native time.
The service will likely be adopted by a burial at a cemetery a couple of half-hour stroll away.
