“Three days after the sudden death of Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable rival, the location of his body was still unclear on Monday and his mother was again rebuffed by morgue officials in the Arctic town of Salekhard, 33 miles from the prison colony where he died,” the Washington Post reports.
“Navalny’s grieving family and political team, who demanded the return of his remains on Saturday, have faced an extended, almost surreal struggle to recover his body, or even to establish its location — with Russian officials seemingly determined to obstruct any independent investigation into the cause of death and delay a funeral.
”“But as Russian authorities continued to torment Navalny and his family even after his death at age 47, there were signs that his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, was prepared to continue her husband’s crusade against the Putin regime.”