The Russian Instruction Committee (CIR) has presented an ultimatum to the mother of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, to accept a secret burial in order to avoid public demonstrations of rejection against the Kremlin, as reported today by the deceased politician’s co-religionists. “An instructor called Navalni’s mother and gave her an ultimatum. Either he accepts a secret burial without a public farewell or Alexei will be buried in the prison,” Kyra Yarmish, Navalni’s spokesperson, reported on her news channel. Telegram.

He added that the mother, Liudmila Naválnaya, refused to negotiate with the CIR, arguing that its investigators “do not have the power to decide how and where to bury their son.” “She demands that the law that obliges instructors to deliver the body within two days from the moment of establishing the causes of death be respected,” she said. Yarmish remembers that the mother has already signed the corresponding medical certificate in the Arctic city of Salekhard and, therefore, “those two days end tomorrow, Saturday.” “She insists that the authorities let her celebrate the funeral and the panegyric in accordance with Christian traditions,” she said.

Navalny’s team has meanwhile filed another lawsuit in court under article 244 of the Russian criminal code.or about “desecration of the body of the deceased”. The mother of the Russian opponent accused the authorities in a video on Thursday of threatening her and of wanting to bury her son “secretly” so that her supporters could not say goodbye to the number one enemy of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. “I don’t agree with this. I want you, those of you who loved Alexei, for whom his death was a personal tragedy, to have the opportunity to say goodbye to him,” she said.

A few days ago the mother I also send a letter to the Russian president to give him the body of his son, who died suddenly on February 16 due to “natural causes”, a version that his coreligionists reject. Numerous Russian artists, intellectuals and journalists in exile have joined the campaign launched by Navalni’s allies on their Telegram channel for the return of the body. Navalny’s widow, Yulia, who was received the day before in San Francisco by US President Joe Biden, directly accuses Putin of ordering the murder of his main political opponent.

Next, Biden announced the largest package of sanctions with the Kremlin since the start of the war in Ukraine two years ago for “Putin’s blatant disregard for human life.” The Kremlin flatly denied all the accusations and called for waiting for the results of the autopsy, while Putin has not publicly alluded to the issue.