{"id":61102,"date":"2024-02-17T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/russian-emigres-gather-across-europe-to-mourn-navalny-denounce-putin\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T08:08:05","slug":"russian-emigres-gather-across-europe-to-mourn-navalny-denounce-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/russian-emigres-gather-across-europe-to-mourn-navalny-denounce-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian emigres gather across Europe to mourn Navalny, denounce Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hundreds of protesters, many of them Russian emigres, gathered in cities across Europe and beyond on Friday to express their outrage over the death<\/a> of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n

Often gathering outside Russian embassies, they chanted slogans critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they blamed for the activist\u2019s death, holding up signs calling him a \u201ckiller\u201d and demanding accountability.<\/p>\n

A man holds a placard that reads \u201cNot death, but murder\u201d at a vigil held in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, February 16.\u2014Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s most formidable domestic opponent, Navalny fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade sentence, prison authorities said.<\/p>\n

In Berlin, a crowd of 500 to 600 people, according to police estimates, gathered on the city\u2019s Unter den Linden boulevard, chanting in a mixture of Russian, German and English.<\/p>\n

Some chanted \u201cPutin to the Hague\u201d, referring to the international criminal court investigating possible war crimes committed in Ukraine.
\nPolice used barriers to close off the road between the Russian embassy and the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlexei Navalny is the leader of the Russian opposition and we always kept hope in his name,\u201d said a Russian man draped in a blue-and-white anti-war flag, giving his name only as Ilia.<\/p>\n

Russians Anna and Anastasia and Scotland\u2019s Alison pay their respects to Alexei Navalny outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, February 16.\u2014Reuters\/Hollie Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

In Lithuania, formerly run from Moscow but now a member of NATO and the European Union and home to a sizeable community of emigres, protesters placed flowers and candles by a portrait of Navalny.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always with us, so it is all surreal,\u201d said Lyusya Shtein, 26, a Pussy Riot activist who has lived in Vilnius since leaving Russia in 2022. \u201cNone of us yet understand what happened\u201d.<\/p>\n

In Russia itself, prosecutors warned Russians against participating in any mass protest in Moscow. Police watched as some Russians came to lay roses and carnations at a monument to victims of Soviet repression in the shadow of the former KGB headquarters.<\/p>\n

A woman holds a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as people gather near the Russian embassy in Paris, France, February 16.\u2014Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Rights group OVD-Info, which reports on freedom of assembly in Russia, said that more than 100 people had been detained at rallies in memory of Navalny. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
\nGroups also gathered in Rome, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sofia, Geneva and The Hague, among others.<\/p>\n

More than 100 protesters stood outside Russia\u2019s London embassy, holding placards that called Putin a war criminal, while in Lisbon hundreds held a silent vigil. Pavel Elizarov, a 28-year-old Russian living in Portugal, said Navalny had been \u201ca symbol of freedom and hope.\u201d
\nNear the Russian embassy in Paris, where around 100 protesters gathered, Natalia Morozov said Navalny had also been a symbol of hope for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to express my emotions, because I\u2019m really shaken\u201d, said Morozov. \u201cNow we no longer have hope for the beautiful Russia of the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

Navalny\u2019s death, if confirmed, leaves the scattered groups that oppose Putin without a figurehead, and no obvious candidate to marshal any discontent over his demise into mass protests.<\/p>\n

A woman holds a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as people gather near the Russian embassy in Paris, France, February 16.\u2014Reuters\/Gonzalo Fuentes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Navalny\u2019s wife, Yulia, was in Munich on Friday, where a vigil also took place. She told the Munich Security Conference she could not be sure her husband was dead because \u201cPutin and his government\u2026 lie incessantly\u201d but said that if confirmed she wanted them to know \u201cthey will bear responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other side of the Atlantic, at a vigil outside the Russian consulate in New York City, Violetta Soboleva said she had volunteered for Navalny\u2019s presidential campaign in 2017.
\n\u201cI really believed that he\u2019s the one and he can lead Russia to a better future,\u201d said Soboleva, a Russian studying for her doctorate in New York. \u201cAnd now we\u2019ve lost this future forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of protesters, many of them Russian emigres, gathered in cities across Europe and beyond on Friday to express their outrage over the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. 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