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Navalny's body given to his mother: Navalny spokesperson

AFP , Saturday 24 Feb 2024

The body of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed to his mother, more than a week after he died in an Arctic prison colony, his spokesperson said on Saturday.

Women lay flowers to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovet
Women lay flowers to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, near the historical Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) building in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024.AP

 

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"Alexei's body was given to his mother. Thank you to everybody who demanded this with us," Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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