Plainclothes individuals have been removing makeshift memorials set up in cities across Russia to commemorate the life of Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition politician who died in prison on Friday.
In Moscow, workers removed flowers placed at the Moskvoretsky Bridge, reported volunteers from Nemtsov Most.
During the night, flowers were taken away from the Solovetsky Stone on Moscow’s Lubyanka Square under police escort, wrote Sota.
In Vladivostok, according to 7x7, municipal workers cleared flowers from a makeshift memorial in the Park of Faith and Hope. A memorial in Ulyanovsk, near a monument for the victims of political repressions, also disappeared.
Despite attempts to take down the tributes, people continue to bring flowers to honor Navalny’s memory.
In Vladivostok, people are taking flowers to monuments for Osip Mandelstam and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. New memorials have also been appearing in Novosibirsk, Nakhodka, Khabarovsk, and Krasnoturyinsk.
Police in Russian cities are collecting information on mourners who come to pay their respects. In Vladivostok, an officer on duty in the Park of Faith and Hope took down the details of those who came to the memorial there. In Khabarovsk, police are also checking the documents of those who came to a tribute site.
In Irkutsk, law enforcement officers are photographing everyone who brings flowers to a memorial for Navalny near a chapel next to the regional government building, reported Astra.
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