The US and UK ambassadors to Moscow have laid flowers to honour Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison on Friday. US ambassador Lynne Tracy and Britain’s Nigel Casey were pictured paying their respects at a memorial in Moscow.
Navalny’s allies believe he was murdered on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. Prison authorities say he suffered “sudden death syndrome”.
About 400 Russians have been detained at gatherings for the campaigner.
Pictures showed a growing pile of flowers left for Navalny at the Solovetsky Stone – a monument to political repression that has become a major site of tributes for the 47-year-old.
“Today at the Solovetsky Stone we mourn the death of Alexei Navalny and other victims of political repression in Russia,” the US embassy in Moscow said on social media.
Navalny’s wife, Yulia, posted an Instagram on Sunday a photo of herself with her husband and the caption “I love you”.
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