Thousands of Russians gathered on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday for the funeral of the late opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, in a ceremony marked by sorrow and stringent security measures.
The sizable crowd included prominent figures such as Boris Nadezhdin, an anti-war candidate recently disqualified from running against President Vladimir Putin, and Yevgeny Roizman, the former mayor of Yekaterinburg known for his vocal criticism of Putin, BBC reported,
