• Mourners chant ‘Navalny’ as coffin carried past

    • Church ringed by crash barriers, police

    • Parents kiss his face for last time

MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday.

In video streamed from the Borisovskyoe cemetery, Navalny’s mother Lyudmila and father Anatoly stooped over his open coffin to kiss him for the last time as a small group of musicians played.

Crossing themselves, mourners stepped forward to caress his face before a priest gently placed a white shroud over him and the coffin was closed.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic inside Russia, died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16., sparking accusations from his supporters that he had been murdered. The Kremlin has denied any state involvement in his death.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Really, I recently watched the documentary on his life and wept manly tears.

  • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    You can still hear the gonging of that man’s massive balls.

    A brave politician putting his life on the line for his country is a rare thing and he should be celebrated.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    9 months ago

    Sorry if i sound a little cold. But he may be of more value as a marter than as alive to help take down the russian system.

    • andshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      9 months ago

      No sure about that. While he was alive he could do things/get stuff done to him which would get reported in the news. Getting poisoned by Novichok, getting arrested in a Russian airport, disappearing and reappearing in an Arctic gulag – all of these things show up in the news cycle, giving us constant reminders of the how bad it is in Russia. Now that he’s a martyr, I guess his name will disappear from headlines until maybe the anniversary of his death.

      • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        9 months ago

        all of these things show up in the news cycle, giving us constant reminders of the how bad it is in Russia

        they started a war in 2014…that’s enough of a reminder how fucked up Russia is. And I don’t know if we, the collective west, need a reminder or wake up call. It’s the majority of russians who need to stop following that cunt putin and start a movement from the inside of Russia to end this madness, but it seems that’s not the case…

        So I don’t know what he wanted to show by returning to Russia or if it was a wise move, especially while he was a husband and a father.

        • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          9 months ago

          Wow we all love people that can’t admit when they’re wrong don’t we

          (Edit: yes, no punctuation hurts for this joke but the lack of contractions is a bridge too far)

          • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            9 months ago

            Ohh thats just the thing i know my spelling is fucked and my lack of any punctuation whatsoever exist i fully aknowlege that. And honestly i dont give a fuck because i prefer to judge based on the content of ones message not the medium through which the message was delivered.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
      133·
      9 months ago

      There’s a lot of places where one could discuss the merits of politics of individuals, however not when discussing their funeral.

      That’s just common decency.

      • endhits@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, that’s nice if you’re a child or an old lady at a funeral that is trying to excuse her husband’s affiliation with the Klan, but that’s not how the real world works.

    • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      9 months ago

      he changed a lot after that. Not gonna calling him a saint but since then he stepped back from a lot he said in the past.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

      Not saying he’s a saint or whatever, but he was working in the right direction and people’s views change over time.