Mourners gather to honor Alexei Navalny on his birthday
- Russian police cracked down on dissidents honoring the memory of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
- The Kremlin critic died in an Arctic prison colony in February, with the cause of death still unexplained.
- Mourners marked Alexei Navalny's birthday at a graveside memorial, paying tribute to the deceased opposition figure.
Russian police stopped people from honoring Alexei Navalny on his birthday. Navalny was an opposition leader who died in a Siberian prison. The police raided a party in Moscow where people were watching a concert for Navalny. Yekaterina Duntsova, who wanted to be president, hosted the party. She was not allowed to run for president because of mistakes in her paperwork. The police were called by a nationalist group. They detained and searched people at the party but later let them go. In another incident, police in Moscow attacked a man with a sign against Putin. They also detained a woman who tried to help him. Navalny's wife thanked everyone who remembered him. People in the Netherlands protested outside the Russian embassy to honor Navalny. They want a street named after him. A petition for this has over 85,000 signatures. Navalny's supporters visited his grave on his birthday. He died in prison, and his family thinks he was murdered. His widow blames Putin for his death. Western countries are angry about how Navalny died. The Kremlin denies any involvement. Navalny's mother and mother-in-law visited his grave. A priest led a service there. Navalny was in prison for many years before he died. Some people believe his death was not natural. The text talks about how people hoped for a miracle but faced injustice instead.