Mourners gathered to lay flowers at Alexey Navalny’s grave in Moscow’s Borisovsokye Cemetery on June 4, marking what would have been the late opposition leader’s 48th birthday. Navalny died in a remote arctic prison on February 17, 2024. According to the rights group OVD-Info, police arrested two women near Navalny’s graveside, while in Novosibirsk, two people were arrested for trying to lay flowers at a monument to victims of political repressions.
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