Queues to lay flowers at Navalny’s grave two days after his funeral

Thousands of people on Sunday (March 3) came to Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow to pay their respects to opposition politician Alexei Navalny two days after he was buried. Quickly moving line of mourners with flowers stretched over 500 metres outside the cemetery gate with more people coming all the time. “The pain is unbearable,“ one of the mourners told Reuters. “(I came) to pay my respects, to honour, to bow before a brave man with whom our hopes were connected for a better future, for fighting corruption, for fair courts.“ “Alexey Navalny is the hero of Russia and simply a good, bright man, like a sun,“ another woman said with her husband adding “He was like a friend to us“. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: