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Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony.
His coffin was taken to a cemetery after a short funeral service in the church.
Thousands of people bade farewell to Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in a penal colony.
The funeral of the opposition leader is taking place today in a church on the outskirts of Moscow - two weeks after he died in an Arctic prison on February 16.
Burial was to follow in the nearby Borisovskoye Cemetery, where police also showed up in force