Funeral of the late Russian opposition leader. Alexei Navalny, will take place on March 1 in Moscow. The politician’s team announced this today, after two days of reporting difficulties in finding a place for a public farewell to an opponent.

The information was confirmed on social network X by Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmish, who announced it Both the mass and the politician’s funeral will take place on Friday.

The observation chapel will be installed in the cathedral in the Moscow Maryino district, in the southeast of the city. burial in the Borisov necropolis there.

Opponents’ followers will be able to say goodbye starting at 14:00 Moscow timesaid Yarmish, who asked everyone to “come early” to the cathedral.

Another close ally of Navalny, Ivan Zhdanov, recalled that the allies of the opposition Initially, his funeral was planned to be held on February 29.

“But it turned out that February 29 There is not a single person who could dig a grave. That on February 28 and March 1 this can be done, but on February 29 graves are not dug,” he wrote in X.

He immediately added that the reason for this was Address of the President of Russia to the nation Vladimir Putin, appointed precisely on February 29.

“The Kremlin understands that “No one will be interested in Putin with his speech on the day of farewell to Alexei,” he said. – he assured.

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(according to information from EFE)