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People have been building a memorial for Alexei Navalny for the last three nights outside the Russian Consulate on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Ludmila Navalnaya arrived at the morgue in the town of Salekhard, Russia, on the morning of 19 February, where the body of her son, opposition politician Alexei Navalny, was allegedly kept. Still, neither she nor her lawyers were allowed in.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: There were some in the Tory ranks yesterday who described the latest by-election drubbings as a warning shot to the beleaguered party.
Crowds of pro-Navalny supporters clashed with a handful of Putin loyalists outside the Russian Consulate.
The US government has described the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny as a "terrible tragedy." Speaking to NPR radio on Friday morning, US President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan underlined the US government had not yet received confirmation of his death so was holding back on commenting for the time being. "Given the Russian government's long and sordid history of doing harm to its opponents, it raises real and obvious questions about what happened here