Mourners in Moscow mark two-year anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s death

Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s mother Lyudmila Navalnaya touches his portrait at his grave, two years after his death, at the Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/)

Mourners gathered in Moscow on Monday to mark two years since the death in custody of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, under the shadow of a Kremlin crackdown and just two days since a new analysis reinforced suspicions that he was murdered.

Mr Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on February 16 2024 while serving a 19-year sentence that he believed to be politically motivated.