Correspondent in Moscow
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“Navalny, Navalny”
: his name is chanted for long minutes as the hearse approaches the church of the Icon of the Mother of God
“relieve my pain”
.
It's not far from 2 p.m.
Earlier in the morning, the crowd gradually gathered.
By midday, it formed an endless queue of more than a kilometer, wrapping around the shrine and spilling out into the adjacent streets.
Braving the risk of arrest and fear, Muscovites came in their thousands, flowers in hand, for a final farewell to the Kremlin's number one opponent, who died on February 16 in his prison in the Russian Far North.
Formerly, Alexeï Navalny lived - happily, he said - in this district of Maryino, south of Moscow.
He returned there one last time, Friday, for his funeral placed under close surveillance, in a church devoid of grace, topped with domes as gray as the surrounding tall buildings.
Sleep well, my brother, and don't worry about anything...
Oleg, brother of Alexei Navalny
The burial then took place in the very old…
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