Navalny ally says authorities threaten to bury Kremlin critic on prison grounds
An ally of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that Russian authorities have given his mother a deadline to agree to forgo a public funeral or else they will bury him on prison grounds.
Lyudmila Navalnaya was given three hours to accept a proposal for a private funeral outside the public eye, Mr Navalny’s close associate Ivan Zhdanov said on social media, in what appears to be another dark twist in the almost week-long stand-off with the authorities to retrieve the politician’s body.
