Thousands Defy Kremlin to Attend Alexei Navalny’s Funeral
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Thousands Defy Kremlin to Attend Alexei Navalny’s Funeral

Thousands of people defied the threat of arrest by attending the funeral of Alexei Navalny in Moscow‚ embracing one of the last remaining avenues to register their anger at President Vladimir Putin as well as mourning one of the few politicians capable of standing up to the Russian leader. The Kremlin had warned Russians against attending what it called spontaneous memorials for the opposition leader‚ who died in an Arctic prison camp last month. But...