Many Russians chanted opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as his mother and father attended a small funeral in a Moscow church surrounded by police. A photograph of Navalny released on social media showed his body lying inside a flower-laden coffin on Friday as his mother, wearing a black headscarf and with a candle in one hand, sat alongside his father nearby.

 

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