The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in an Arctic penal colony, will be held in Moscow on Friday, his spokeswoman said.
The funeral will be held in a church in the south-eastern Moscow district of Marzhino on Friday afternoon, Kira Yarmush said yesterday.
Navalny will be buried in a nearby cemetery.
Navalny (47) died on February 16 in one of the strictest Russian penal colonies where he was serving a 19-year sentence. Russian authorities have announced that the cause of his death is still unknown, and the results of the investigation are likely to be questioned abroad, AP writes.
Many Western leaders have already said they hold Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for Navalny's death.
Navalny has been in prison since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning blamed on the Kremlin. After his arrest, he was sentenced to three prison sentences, on several charges, all of which he dismissed as political.
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Navalny's team announced earlier that the opposition activist was "killed".
The body of Alexei Navalny, which his relatives have been searching for from Russian authorities for more than a week, was handed over to his mother on Saturday.
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