Some flowers and meditation.
Alexei Navalny's family and supporters paid a new tribute this Tuesday to Vladimir Putin's former number one opponent, 40 days after his death in prison, a step in the Orthodox religion towards life in the -of the.
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In the Orthodox rite, the soul of the deceased must be purified during this period after death.
At the end of the 40 days, a commemoration takes place so that the prayers of family and loved ones help the soul reach paradise.
Large wooden cross
At the Borissovo cemetery, in the southeast of Moscow, dozens of supporters of the opponent who died in prison in circumstances that remained opaque on February 16 brought flowers and gathered in front of his grave in the morning, noted a AFP journalist.
Alexeï Navalny's mother, Lioudmila, was seen there, accompanied by Alla Abrossimova, mother of the deceased's widow, Yulia Navalnaïa.
Both women were dressed in black.
The opponent's father, Anatoliï, also paid his respects at the cemetery.
The grave decorated with a large wooden cross was covered with flowers and wreaths.
“Today, 40 days have passed since Alexei’s assassination,” Yulia Navalnaïa wrote on X, thanking “all those who remember.”
Сегодня 40 days will cost Алексея.
Music, poems and artists have written songs in their own words.
Спасибо большое всем, кто помнит https://t.co/WfhOK0UCU9
— Yulia Navalnaya (@yulia_navalnaya) March 26, 2024
Merciless repression
Russian authorities have claimed that Navalny died of natural causes, while his relatives believe that the opponent, who had already survived poisoning and was weakened by very harsh detention conditions, was killed.
In exile, Yulia Navalnaïa, who has taken over from her husband, cannot go to Russia because she risks being arrested there.
On Tuesday, she also relayed a song which celebrates the life of her husband: “The darkness does not scare us, Liosha (
short for Alexei
), we will not give up”, says the text in particular.
In mid-March, after the unopposed re-election of Vladimir Putin, Yulia Navalnaïa called on her supporters to “not give in” and “move forward”.
The Kremlin is carrying out merciless repression of all its detractors, no longer tolerating any criticism in particular since the launch of the assault on Ukraine in February 2022.