The funeral of the late Russian opposition leader,
Alexei Navalny
, will take place on March 1 in
Moscow
, the politician's team announced this Wednesday, after denouncing
difficulties for two days in finding a space
to hold a public farewell to the opponent.
The information was confirmed on the social network
The burning chapel will be installed in the cathedral of the Moscow neighborhood of Mariino, in the southeast of the city, and the burial will be in the Borisovo necropolis in the same area.
The opposition's followers will be able to say goodbye starting at 2 p.m. (Moscow time), said Yarmish, who asked everyone to "arrive early" to the cathedral.
Another close collaborator of Navalny, Iván Zhdanov, recalled that the opposition's allies initially planned to organize his funeral on February 29.
"But it turned out that on February 29 there is not a single person available to dig a grave. That on February 28 and March 1 it is possible to do it, but on February 29 the graves are not dug," he wrote in X.
A man in front of the memorial of the Russian opposition leader.
Photo DAMIR SENCAR / AFP.
Furthermore, he maintained that the reason for this was Russian President Vladimir Putin's state of the nation address, scheduled precisely for February 29.
"In the Kremlin they understand that no one would be interested in Putin with his speech on the day of Alexei's farewell," he said.
This Monday, Navalny's allies revealed that the politician died in prison days before his exchange for the Chechen Vadim Krásikov, convicted in Germany for the murder of a Georgian citizen.
However, the Kremlin claimed to have no information about the possible exchange.