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Josie Stewart was axed after a senior member of the BBC s Newsnight team accidentally revealed her name by posting screenshots of leaked emails showing her name, a tribunal has heard.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's critic Alexei Navalny's family has claimed his body will not be handed over for the next two weeks.

Russian courts have sentenced hundreds of people detained at events where they laid flowers for Russian opposition leader and Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who was found dead in prison.

Yulia Navalnaya has accused the Russian authorities of hiding Navalnys body in order to wait for traces of the nerve agent to disappear.

Diplomats in Moscow pay their respects to the Russian opposition leader who died in prison on Friday.

In a statement, Lynne Tracy called Alexei Navalny “a strong voice that spoke bravely against corrosive corruption and represented hope for political change.”

About 400 Russians have been detained at gatherings for the campaigner.

Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia on Sunday wrote her first social media post ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin's critic and the country's key opposition leader died in prison, an incident which triggered widespread criticism of the government.

Alexei Navalny, 47, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the remote Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade sentence, the prison service said.

US ambassador Lynne Tracy and Britain's Nigel Casey were pictured paying their respects at a memorial in Moscow.