“Our immense gratitude and deepest greetings to all who came and still come to the cemetery, those who bring flowers, write about Alexei, remember our son and pray for him!”, wrote the parents of the political opponent Russian, found dead on February 16 in an Arctic prison.
The parents of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died in detention in mid-February, thanked the thousands of Russians who came to pay tribute to him at his grave in Moscow since his burial almost ten days ago. “Our immense gratitude and deepest greetings to all who came and still come to the cemetery, those who bring flowers, write about Alexei, remember our son and pray for him!”, they said in a published written note Saturday by his widow, Yulia Navalnaïa.
“Thank you for remembering, this memory gives us hope!”, concluded Anatoli Navalny and Lioudmila Navalnaïa. Since his funeral on March 1, thousands of Russians have visited his grave, covered with a mountain of flowers, and continue to go there daily to pay their respects.
Yulia Navalnaïa vowed to continue the fight
After his death on February 16 in an Arctic prison, his mother had to battle for several days with the authorities to recover his body and bury him. The team of the opponent, enemy number 1 of Vladimir Putin, accused the government of having killed him and of seeking to cover up his traces, which the Kremlin denies.
Yulia Navalnaïa, forced to live abroad to avoid prison in Russia, vowed to continue her husband’s fight and called on her supporters to gather at the polling stations on March 17, the last day of the presidential election.