(16 Feb 2025)
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Moscow – 16 February 2025
1. Man laying flowers at the grave of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on the anniversary of his death
2. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy laying flowers
3. U.K. Ambassador to Russia Nigel Casey laying flowers
4. Various of people laying flowers
5. Close of flowers
6. Various of people laying flowers
7. Close of flowers
STORYLINE:
Foreign ambassadors laid flowers at the grave of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny Sunday, a year after he died in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving a prison sentence.
Ambassadors from the U.S. and the UK laid flowers at Navalny’s grave in Moscow cemetery early Sunday together with Russians who came to mourn the late opposition leader.
Memorial services and protests are expected around the world on Sunday.
Authorities blamed Navalny’s death, announced Feb. 16, 2024, on natural causes — a sudden spike in blood pressure and chronic diseases.
His family and allies reject that and insist he was killed on orders from the Kremlin, accusations its officials deny.
Tens of thousands of people attended his funeral in Moscow on March 1 in a rare show of defiance in a country where any street rally or even single pickets often result in immediate arrest.
For days afterward, people brought flowers to his grave.
Several hundred criminal cases have been opened over the last few years for using symbols related to Navalny, according to Russian independent news outlet Verstka.
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