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Uncertainty still surrounded, at the start of the week, the date and arrangements for the funeral of Alexeï Navalny, who died in detention on February 16 in the IK-3 penal colony, in the Russian Far North.
The unrest surrounding the death of the Kremlin's main opponent, the precise causes of which are still not known, increased further on Monday with statements from his relatives claiming that Navalny was about to be exchanged.
Saturday morning, his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaïa, was finally able to recover the body of her son in Salekhard, the capital of the Yamalo-Nenets district, the Arctic region where the opponent died in one of the prisons. toughest in Russia.
This not without having suffered
“blackmail”
from the authorities, as Ms. Navalnaïa recounted, so that he would be buried secretly, far in any case from the gaze of the public which, in several cities, continued in recent days to lay flowers in tribute to the opponent.
Imbroglio
Adding to the confusion…
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