Alexei Navalny’s body seen in coffin, Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ played as thousands of supporters defy Putin to honor opposition leader
Posted on AllSides March 1st, 2024
From The Right
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...