The police did not prevent visits to the grave, although visitors were monitored.
In Russia, people queued for the third day on Sunday to lay flowers for an opposition politician who died in February To Alexei Navalny to the grave in Moscow.
– This is a sign that people feel the extent of the loss and the scale of the person. They know exactly what this person did for the country, a 29-year-old engineer Alexander told the AFP news agency at the Borisovskoye cemetery on Sunday.
Navalny was buried in Borisovskoye on Friday. On Sunday, the line at the cemetery gate was half a kilometer long.
– It’s good to know that there are many of us. People love him. They want to express their love, said a 65-year-old pensioner to AFP Svetlana.
The people interviewed by AFP did not want to give their last names.
the BBC Russian language service says, referring to the independent Agentsvo media, that there are already more flowers on the grave than the first president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin or the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in the graves.
The video shows how the mountain of flowers piled on the grave covers the grave up to the cross. Also Navalny’s spokesman Kira Jarmyš has published a video from the grave site today on the X message service.
Russian police were present at the cemetery on Sunday, but with a smaller presence than in the previous days. The police didn’t seem to be arresting people.
Sources: AFP