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Mourners In Moscow Pay Respects To Late Opposition Leader

Russian late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia attends the Munich Security Conference

Mourners line the streets of Moscow today to pay their respects to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a display of grief and solidarity that's become increasingly risky in Vladimir Putin's Russia. The name the Kremlin never speaks, chanted as Alexei Navalny's body was finally laid to rest. Thousands of people in Moscow braving the prospect of arrest to say goodbye to Vladimir Putin's greatest foe, mourners of a political martyr. Vowing that Russia will be free. Ambassadors from the United States, France, and Germany also joining the crowds with flowers in hand.

Video of Navalny's open casket, the final glimpse of a corpse finally handed back to his family and allowed to rest two weeks to the day since he took his last breaths after years spent fighting even from his prison cells Vladimir Putin's iron grip on Russia. A legacy that his widow unable to attend the funeral for safety reasons echoed in a message on social media sharing a montage of her life with Navalny. She wrote, 'I don't know how to live without you. I don't know if I can handle this or not, but I will try.'

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