On Thursday, Russia is said to have demanded that regime critic Alexei Navalny be given a secret funeral. Navalny recently died while imprisoned in a Russian penal colony. On Friday, the authorities should have given Lyudmila Navalnaya’s mother an ultimatum to accept the demand within three hours, otherwise Navalny would be buried in the penal colony where he died, reports Reuters. But this demand has now been rejected, writes Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Jarmysh. – She refuses to negotiate with them because they do not have the will to decide when or how her son will be buried. She insists that the authorities allowed a funeral in line with normal practice, she writes. Demand the body released Navalnya said on Thursday that she had seen the body of her son, and that the authorities put pressure on her to accept a secret burial. But in a YouTube video she said that she wanted everyone who wanted to be able to say goodbye to the son. – I want those who were happy for Aleksej, who experienced his death as a personal tragedy, to be able to say goodbye to him. Jarmysj wrote in the message she published on Friday that the body will be released within two days after the cause of death has been determined. This deadline expires on Saturday, according to the document Navalny’s mother has signed. Facts about Aleksej Navalny Russian regime critic and blogger (b. 1976) with millions of followers on Twitter and YouTube. Trained as a lawyer. Married and father of two. In 2007, started an anti-corruption campaign by buying into state-controlled companies in order to be able to ask critical questions at the general meetings. Has organized a number of demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin. Excluded from the liberal party Jabloko in 2008, where he had been active since 2000, for damaging the party with his nationalist tendencies. Leader of the small Partija Progressa – the Progress Party – since its creation in 2013. Received 27 percent of the vote in the mayoral election in Moscow in September 2013. Has been arrested and convicted of embezzlement and money laundering, charges he himself claims were politically motivated. He has also been arrested and convicted for taking part in illegal demonstrations several times. Wanted to stand as a presidential candidate and challenge Putin in the 2018 election, but the candidacy was not approved. On 20 August 2020, he became acutely ill on a passenger plane en route from Siberia to Moscow. Two days later he was evacuated to Berlin after strong Western pressure. Tests have shown that he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. On 17 January 2021, Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia. He was sentenced in February 2021 to serve 2.5 years in a labor camp for breaching the duty to report following a conditional sentence from 2014. The sentence was based on a fraud case that Navalny rejects as forgery. In the spring of 2021, he led a hunger strike lasting over three weeks with demands for better health care. The strike was ended at the request of the doctors and after large demonstrations of support in Russia. On 26 April 2021, a court in Moscow decided that Navalny’s foundation had to stop all activities while they waited for a legal decision on whether the foundation was extremist. On 30 April 2021, the Navalny Foundation appeared on the extremist list of Russia’s financial monitoring service Rosfinmonitoring. On 16 February 2024, the prison authorities in the Yamal-Nenets region, where Navalny is imprisoned, announced that he had died. They state that he lost consciousness after a walk and died. (Source: NTB, news) Well-known Putin critic Navalny was one of the most high-profile critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and became particularly well-known after he made revelations about corruption in the Russian power apparatus. In August 2020, he was poisoned during a flight, but survived. He was sent to Germany for treatment, but later chose to return to Russia. There he was caught at the airport and sent to a penal colony in Jamal-Nenets, north of central Russia. There he served several sentences totaling 30 years. But Navalny insisted that the charges against him were baseless and fabricated to stop his political ambitions.
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