Navalny's mother appeals to Putin: "Decision depends only on you". "I demand that Alexei’s body be returned immediately so that I can bury him in a humane manner,” Lyudmila Navalnaya said.
The Kremlin has rejected an international investigation into Navalny's death called for by the EU. According to Russian authorities, Navalny, who was physically weakened after many days of repeated solitary confinement, collapsed in freezing temperatures on February 16.