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    Mr Navalny, 47, was a high-profile and vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and had been serving a 19-year prison term when he died on Friday in an Arctic penal colony.

    On Monday she vowed to continue her husband’s fight against the Kremlin - and accused Mr Putin of killing the country’s opposition leader in a powerful nine-minute video.

    “They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give it to his mother and lying miserably while waiting for the trace of” poison to disappear, Ms Navalnaya said.

    Mr Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, said in a video on Tuesday taken outside the barbed wire of the prison where her son died: "For the fifth day, I have been unable to see him.

    “I demand that Alexei’s body is released immediately, so that I can bury him like a human being,” she said in the footage posted on social media by Mr Navalny’s team.

    Russian authorities have said the cause of Mr Navalny’s death is still unknown and refused to release his body for the next two weeks as the preliminary inquest continues and a “chemical analysis” is carried out, his team has said.


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