A woman touches a photo of Alexei Navalny after laying flowers paying the last respect to him at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Saturday, February 17, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and his lawyer Alexei Tsvetkov walk out of an office of the Investigative Committee's regional department in the city of Salekhard in the Yamal-Nenets Region, Russia, on February 19, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A person with a waste bag removes flowers laid in memory of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the monument to the victims of political repression in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 19, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Natalia Patrashku holds a portrait of her son during the opening of the memorial to Russian service members killed during Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Yevpatoriya, Crimea on February 22, 2024. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Kazakov/Pool via AFP Photo)





In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov/Pool via AFP Photo)





A boy holds a training grenade launcher at the 'Russians Change the World' patriotic festival marking Defender of the Fatherland Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, February 23, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man votes at an outdoor polling station in the village of Ulakhan-An, a remote area of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on February 25, 2024, during an early voting held as part of the Russian presidential election scheduled for March 15-17, with LDPR Leader Leonid Slutsky, Russian Communist Party member Nikolai Kharitonov, New People Party member Vladislav Davankov, and incumbent president Vladimir Putin listed as candidates. (Photo by Vadim Skryabin/TASS)





A woman pushes a stroller with a baby past an advertising digital screen in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 26, 2024. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





The co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Memorial Human Rights Centre Oleg Orlov gestures standing in a glass cage after he was taken into custody in the courtroom during court session for a new trial on charges of repeated discrediting Russian military, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People come to lay flowers at the site where late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was fatally shot on a bridge near the Kremlin in central Moscow on February 27, 2024, on the 9th anniversary of his assassination. Nemtsov was one of President Vladimir Putin's loudest critics until he was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. (Photo by Andrey Borodulin/AFP Photo)





A woman walks past a screen displaying a broadcasting of Russia's President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address on the facade of a building in Moscow on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Lyudmila Navalnaya (3rd R front) and Anatoly Navalny (2nd R front), parents of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends a funeral ceremony for their son at the Borisovo cemetery in Moscow's district of Maryino on March 1, 2024. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Mourners gather outside the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows church ahead of a funeral service for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Moscow's district of Maryino on March 1, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Riot police officers guard the area near the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. (Photo by AP Photo)





Funeral service workers carry the coffin of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny outside the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, during his funerals in Moscow, Russia, 01 March 2024. Outspoken Kremlin critic Navalny died aged 47 in an arctic penal colony on 16 February 2024 after being transferred there in 2023. The colony is considered to be one of the world's harshest prisons. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA)





Mourners gather in front of the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows church ahead of a funeral service for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Moscow's district of Maryino on March 1, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Mourners react as the hearse carrying the coffin of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny leaves the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows church towards the Borisovo cemetery for Navalny's burial, in Moscow's district of Maryino on March 1, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Police officers walk past people, who gather outside the Soothe My Sorrows church and wait for a funeral service and farewell ceremony for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, on March 1, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A woman holds a portrait of Alexei Navalny and a book titled “A saint against the Reich” as people gather outside the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. (Photo by AP Photo)