Famous people demand to hand over the body of Alexei Navalny to his mother

Famous people from the world of art and business, journalists and public figures demand to give the body of politician Alexei Navalny to his mother. The video with their appeals is published by the Telegram channel “Navalny’s Team”.

Among those who have already registered: TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva, leader of the group “Mashina Vremeny” Andrey Makarevich, member of the group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, historian Tamara Eidelman, musician Noize MC, writer Mikhail Zygar, businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov, ballet master Mikhail Baryshnikov and others

The day before, the politician’s mother Lyudmila Navalnaya reported that the members of the Investigative Committee were blackmailing her, promising to hand over her son’s body only if his funeral was held secretly and without a farewell.

“They blackmail me, they set me conditions: where, when and how should Alexei be buried,” said Navalnaya. that everything was done according to the law.”

• Navalny died on February 16 in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District beyond the Arctic Circle. The politician was 47 years old.
• On February 20, Lyudmila Navalnaya recorded a video appeal to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, demanding that she hand over her son’s body. The press secretary of the president, Dmitry Peskov, said that he would not comment on this, calling the extradition of the body “not the Kremlin’s business.”
• In the conclusion about the death, it is said that the politician died of natural causes, reported ego press secretary Kira Yarmysh. Navalny’s widow Yulia claims that he was killed. After establishing the cause of Navalny’s death, his body must be handed over to the family within two days, notes the publication “Meduza”, referring to the federal law “On burial and funeral matters”.