Alexei Navalny’s body seen in coffin, Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ played as thousands of supporters defy Putin to honor opposition leader

The body of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow on Friday to the defiant refrain of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” — as thousands challenged President Vladimir Putin by paying final respects to his fiercest critic, many chanting “Putin is a murderer.”

Video from the Barisovskoye cemetery showed the 47-year-old dissident’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, clad in a black scarf, making the sign of the cross over her dead son’s body and his father, Anatoly, kissing him on the brow.

Navalny was then draped in a white shroud before the coffin lid was shut.

It was then lowered to the sounds of Sinatra’s iconic 1968 song of independence — followed by a selection from the soundtrack of “Terminator 2,” Navalny’s favorite movie.

Crowds of mourners, many carrying flowers, waited outside the cemetery to bid farewell to Navalny while chanting his name.