The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila, has recorded a video appeal to the president of Russia, demanding her son's body be returned so that she could bury him. Source: Navalny LIVE Youtube channel; Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) and Navalny's associate, on Telegram Quote from Lyudmila Navalnaya: "Behind my back is the correctional facility No.