Navalny team organizing public memorial service before Kremlin's eyes

The team of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic opponent, said it plans to organize a public memorial service in Moscow by Friday. "We are looking for a hall for Alexei's public farewell," Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Monday on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The planned date is the end of the current working week, she added. Navalny died suddenly on February 16 in the prison camp with the unofficial name "Polar Wolf" in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal, Russian authorities said. The circumstances of h...