Correspondent in Moscow
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The monument was cleared of a mountain of flowers overnight.
But people still came back all weekend, red carnations in hand, alone, in small groups or two by two, mostly young people but not only.
They came to bow for a brief moment before the stone of Solovki, the island of the first gulags, which became a place of contemplation in memory of the victims of Soviet repression.
Lubyanka, headquarters of the former KBG and its heir, the FSB, is just opposite.
Flowers, candles, a sign in a frame under glass:
“Don’t surrender”
, echoing the exhortation of the opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died on Friday, at the age of 47, in a penal colony in the Arctic .
All around, traffic and the usual bustle of the snowy city.
So, we suppress a tear, we say a silent prayer before moving away quickly, under the watchful eye of the police who, this time, have not moved, but are encouraging the meager flow over the loudspeaker...
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