Скачать или смотреть Family and strangers visit Alexei Navalny’s grave to pay tribute 6 months after death

The mothers of Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia have laid flowers at the grave of the late Kremlin critic on Friday, August 16, to mark six months since his death.

Lyudmila Navalnaya and his widow’s mother Alla Abrosimova came to the Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow today to pay tribute to Navalny.

On Thursday, Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the Russian dissident, rejected the findings by Russian authorities that he died from a combination of several diseases.

Navalny’s death in custody was announced on February 16 of this year in a statement published by the Federal Penitentiary Service of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, after he had spent more than three years in prison.

This footage shows Alexei and Yulia's mothers at the cemetery, as well as Navalny's nephews Ostap and Stepan. SOTAvision also asked people at the graveyard what Navalny meant to them.