Here are some of the latest images on the newswires ahead of the funeral of #AlexeiNavalny in #Moscow. The memorial service will be held at 2pm Moscow time (11am GMT) at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, in #Maryino. The burial will then take place at the #BorisovskoyeCemetery at 4pm Moscow time (1pm GMT): #Russia #Ukraine

Funeral of #Putin critic Alexei Navalny to take place in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live
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Alexei Navalny funeral: multiple mourners detained; crowds in Moscow chant ‘Putin is a murderer’ and ‘Russia without Putin’ – as it happened

Footage appears to show authorities arresting mourners in Moscow and Novosibirsk after thousands gathered for Alexei Navalny’s funeral

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Mourners are starting to gather outside a church in #Moscow where opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny, Vladimir #Putin’s most prominent critic, is due to be remembered ahead of his burial amid uncertainty about whether police will arrest those who have come to say goodbye.
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Funeral of Putin critic Alexei Navalny to take place in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live

Several Moscow churches refused to hold the service before one in the capital’s Maryino district gave permission

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Mourners form long queues for funeral of Putin critic Alexei Navalny in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live

Several Moscow churches refused to hold the service before one in the capital’s Maryino district gave permission

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As mentioned previously, the funeral is being live-streamed on the #AlexeiNavalny #YouTube channel. You can follow it in Russian here. #Russia #Ukraine

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Mourners form long queues for funeral of Putin critic Alexei Navalny in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live
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Похороны Алексея Навального

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#RuslanShaveddinov, an ally of #AlexeiNavalny, said that the funeral service for the late Russian opposition politician was under way in #Moscow, reports Reuters. #Russia #Ukraine

Mourners chant #Navalny’s name as funeral of Putin critic begins in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live
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Mourners chant Navalny’s name as funeral of Putin critic begins in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live

Several Moscow churches refused to hold the service before one in the capital’s Maryino district gave permission

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Mourners chant Navalny’s name at funeral of Putin critic in Moscow – Russia-Ukraine war live

Hundreds gather for Alexei Navalny’s funeral amid heavy police presence

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Crowds were heard shouting “#Navalny, Navalny!” when the hearse carrying his coffin arrived at the Quench My Sorrows church in the #Maryino district, where the late opposition leader used to live, on Friday. #Russia #Ukraine

#AlexeiNavalny funeral draws thousands to heavily policed #Moscow church
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Alexei Navalny funeral draws thousands to heavily policed Moscow church

Western diplomats attend as chanting crowd pays tribute to opposition leader who died in Arctic penal colony

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The widow of #AlexeiNavalny, #YuliaNavalnaya, posted a goodbye message to her late husband on X.

“Lyosha” is the familiar short form or nickname for Alexei. It is translated from Russian by Google: #Russia #Ukraine

‘I don’t know how to live without you’: Yulia Navalnaya says goodbye to husband Alexei Navalny as he is buried in Moscow – live
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‘I don’t know how to live without you’: Yulia Navalnaya says goodbye to husband Alexei Navalny as he is buried in Moscow – live

Hundreds gather for Alexei Navalny’s funeral amid heavy police presence

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Thousands of people gathered to bid farewell to the country’s most prominent critic of #VladimirPutin. The funeral, which took place under a heavy police presence, followed a battle with authorities over the release of #Navalny’s body after his death in an Arctic penal colony. #Russia #Ukraine

Funeral of #AlexeiNavalny in #Moscow – in pictures
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Funeral of Alexei Navalny in Moscow – in pictures

Thousands of people gather to bid farewell to the country’s most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin

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#Navalny kept his sense of humour to the very end, requesting that an orchestra play the final theme from #Terminator2 as his casket was lowered into the ground. In the film, the music plays as a robotic #ArnoldSchwarzenegger is lowered into molten steel in a teary goodbye. #Russia #Ukraine

Anything but normal: Navalny laid to rest amid police and protesters | #AlexeiNavalny
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Anything but normal: Navalny laid to rest amid police and protesters

Many of the late opposition leader’s close allies were absent, either arrested or fled, but thousands braved the barricades

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