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The mother of Alexei Navalny has claimed she was threatened by Russian officials after being shown his body – almost a week after his death in an Arctic prison.
Lyudmila Navalnaya, 69, said that officials told her that if she doesn’t agree to a secret funeral, they will “do something” to her son’s body.
In an allegation posted on YouTube, she accused Russian investigators of “blackmailing” her to hold a service with for Putin’ s most prominent critic with no mourners present.
Western leaders have lined up to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin of killing Navalny, who had been jailed in a remote Siberian penal colony.
