Yesterday it was revealed that the public funeral of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny will take place at the end of this week. This was announced by the politician's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh. However, a day later, it became known that a venue for the funeral has still not been found. Navalny's allies have contacted most of the private and state funeral agencies, commercial venues, and funeral halls. All have refused.
«Some say the venue is booked. Others refuse upon the mention of the Navalny surname. In one case, we were directly told that funeral agencies were prohibited from working with us,» Kira Yarmysh reported on social network X (formerly Twitter).
Navalny's team continues to search for a venue to say goodbye to the politician and has once again asked Moscow residents for help.
Recall, opposition politician Alexei Navalny was killed on February 16 in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Later, it was revealed that Navalny and two other American citizens were to be exchanged for the killer and FSB officer Vadim Krasikov. Navalny's associate Maria Pevchikh clarified that the negotiations for the exchange were in their final stages on the evening of February 15 — a day before the politician's murder.
On February 22, Alexei Navalny's mother, Lyudmila Ivanovna Navalnaya, was shown a medical report on the death, which stated that the cause of death was natural. No independent autopsy was conducted. Lyudmila was threatened to conduct the funeral secretly without a public farewell, otherwise, they threatened to bury the body in the colony. Navalny's mother refused to comply with these demands and demanded compliance with the law, which requires investigators to hand over the body within two days from the moment the cause of death is established.
