In Russia, cultural figures call for Navalny's remains to be returned. More than twenty figures from the Russian cultural and media world, critical of the Kremlin, have called on the authorities to hand over the body.
The opponent's mother, Lioudmila Navalnaïa, spoke on Thursday, after finally seeing her son's body. She accuses the Russian authorities of using “blackmail” against her to bury her “secretly” In Russia, hundreds of people were arrested by the authorities last week for honoring the memory of the main opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.