Navalny's mother went to his grave after the funeral

The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny visited his grave a day after thousands of Russians risked arrest at his funeral to pay their respects to the anti-corruption fighter.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic for more than a decade, died in an Arctic prison colony last month where he was serving a 19-year sentence on "extremism" charges widely seen as political retribution for his opposition to the Kremlin. His mother Lyudmila Navalnaya visited his grave at the Borisov Cemetery in the south of Moscow. She was accompanied by Alla Abrosimova, the mother of Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya, AFP journalists saw.
Yulia Navalnaya, the couple's two children and Navalny's brother live abroad and did not attend the funeral, where they could have been arrested for their opposition to Putin. Yulia Navalny vowed to continue her husband's work and said Putin "killed" Navalny.
AFP journalists saw a small group of mourners laying flowers at his grave and a heavy police presence at the cemetery, near the banks of the Moscow River. On Friday, thousands of Navalny's followers queued for hours to pay their respects to the 47-year-old. /BGNES, AFP