At least four Moscow residents were reportedly detained on March 5 for laying flowers to honor late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who died in prison last month. The OVD-Info Telegram channel said Polina Orekhova and Yegor Komlev were detained over laying flowers at makeshift Navalny memorials on February 16, the day Navalny's death was made public, and February 17. OVD-Info said that two other Moscow residents -- Yelena Gribkova and Yelena Levina, who were detained briefly on February 17 for honoring Navalny -- were detained again on March 5 over attending Navalny’s burial last week. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.
At Least Four Moscow Residents Reportedly Detained For Laying Flowers To Honor Navalny
With Russia's Federal Security Service building in the background, a woman lays flowers to pay tribute to Aleksei Navalny at a monument in Moscow dedicated to gulag prisoners.