"Now it is clear that the killers want to cover their tracks and therefore are not handing over Alexei's body, hiding it even from his mother."
With these words, Alexei Navalny's team, in a post on Telegram, accuses the Russian authorities of not handing over his dead body "because they don't want to know the method they used to kill Alexei".
The thriller over Navalny's body continues as Russian authorities conclude that the Russian opposition leader did not die from a criminal act, but from "Sudden Death Syndrome". However, when his mother went to the prison morgue in Siberia to collect his body, she discovered that it was not there. Where is Navalny? No one answers to Ludmila Navalny, who now speaks openly about murder and vows not to give up. "And let them put me in jail, I will scream," she says.
With Alexei Navalny designated as an "extremist" by the Russian state, anyone who demonstrates for him, or is shown to have had any connection with him, risks arrest. While they were arrested, based on the information transmitted by the Russian media, more than 400 Russians in 36 cities for demonstrations after the death of Navalny. Among them, a priest was arrested in St. Petersburg, who announced that he would hold a funeral for the deceased.
According to Navalny's widow, priest Grigory Mikhnov-Vyatenko was arrested near his home on his way to the Solovetsky memorial to victims of political persecution in the Soviet Union. A little later, as the member of the opposition Boris Vishnevsky announced on Telegram, Mikhnov-Vytenko was taken to the hospital with a stroke.
"At police station number 43, his lawyer called an ambulance. Grigory was taken to the hospital where it was determined that he should be treated by a medical team," said Wisniewski. So, after the priest was arrested and suffered a stroke, the Russian Orthodox Church announced that Mikhnov-Vyatenko does not belong in its circles and called on the world to ignore him.