In Putin's Russia, attending a funeral can put people in grave danger.
Thus Yulia Navalnaïa, widow of Alexeï Navalny, who mysteriously died at the age of 47 in his Siberian gulag on February 16, warned relatives as well as anonymous supporters who dare to go to the funeral of the ex- number one opponent of the Kremlin, Friday, in a church in Moscow.
“I do not yet know if the funeral will be peaceful or if the police will arrest those who came to say goodbye to my husband,” she said in a moving speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
The experience of this regime, which eliminates, represses and imprisons as it breathes, unfortunately leans towards the second hypothesis.
Wasn't one of Navalny's lawyers briefly arrested on Tuesday just for having accompanied the deceased's mother in her fierce fight to recover her son's remains?
Worse, hasn't Oleg Orlov, 70, a figure in the defense of human rights, just been sent to a penal colony?
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