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'Very Personal': Hundreds Flock To Navalny Grave On Death Anniversary

Hundreds of Russians risked reprisals to pay their respects to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Credit: AFP)

Standing in the freezing cold at Moscow's Borisovsky Cemetery, 63-year-old Anna looked at the hundreds of people flocking to the grave of a man whose name the Kremlin has warned not to utter in public -- Alexei Navalny -- and could not hold back the tears.

The child psychologist joined hundreds to honour the memory of Vladimir Putin's main opponent on the first anniversary of his death in mysterious circumstances in an Arctic prison.

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