Security has been beefed up in Moscow ahead of the burial of President Vladimir Putin’s main rival, Alexei Navalny on Friday.
Navalny died earlier on February 16, at the age of 47 under mysterious circumstances during his imprisonment at a prison camp.
His mother and wife had refused initial requests from the Government to have a secret burial and have urged crowds to show up at the funeral.
Public mourning of Navalny’s death runs the risk of detention as Scores of people have recently been detained for laying flowers for Navalny.
But His supporters have decided to livestream his funeral online with the church service underway to be followed by a burial at Borisov cemetery.
