From the very morning, supporters of Alexei Navalny have been coming to Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow to congratulate him on his birthday. People are carrying flowers, messages, portraits of Alexei and, of course, rubber duckies, which are a reference to the Anti-Corruption Foundation's 2017 investigation into Medvedev's country cottage, which has a “house for duckies.” Back then, at an anti-corruption protest organized by Alexei Navalny, people brought rubber duckies for baths as a symbol of the corrupt Kremlin government.
Alexei Navalny's wife, Yulia, who said she will continue her husband's work, will attend a memorial service in Berlin today at St. Marienkirche, an ancient Protestant church, in memory of the politician.
In Novosibirsk, a monument to victims of political repression in Narymskiy Square has been fenced off with signal ribbons. According to local media, several police officers are on duty at the site.
In Perm, Berezniki and Syktyvkar, the police went to the homes of activists the day before and handed them “warnings about the inadmissibility of violating the law”. According to local media reports, police came to those who had been fined after laying flowers at memorials to Navalny's memory.
One of Russia's most prominent opposition politicians, Alexei Navalny, died in a special-regime colony in Kharp, above the Arctic Circle. His wife Yulia Navalnaya and associates of the opposition politician have accused Putin of killing Navalny. They claim Navalny was killed in prison to disrupt his exchange to a Western country. The Kremlin insists that Navalny died a natural death, allegedly “detached blood clot.”
In total, Navalny spent more than 1,120 days behind bars, including 308 days in solitary confinement. The opposition activist would have turned 48 today, but he died in captivity on February 16, 2024.
