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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 Navalny's 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.