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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.”

The death of Alexey Navalny has been met with an outpouring of grief across the world, and even inside Russia – where the smallest acts of political dissent carry great risk – people have been honoring his memory.

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

According to a Russian news outlet, Alexei Navalnys body is now in a morgue, but no post-mortem examination has yet been performed. The same media organisation also cites an inmate who described a "mysterious commotion" on the night before his death was announced.

A priest in St. Petersburg has suffered a stroke after being arrested and detained for planning a memorial service for the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in Russia.

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 Navalnys widow will meet European foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, EU officials announced, as Russian courts jailed dozens of people detained at events commemorating the Kremlin critic.

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.

The fact there are so many who still come to pay their respects even on the third day after his death shows the impact Alexei Navalny had.