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Navalny funeral: huge crowds pay tribute to Russian opposition leader – video

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Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison two weeks ago. Footage showed huge crowds chanting slogans and lining the streets of the Russian capital. The public show of support turned Navalny’s last journey into a rare display of dissent in Russia at a time of unprecedented repression. Many of the opposition leader’s family – including his wife, Yulia – live outside Russia and did not attend the funeral as they would risk arrest

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