INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Updated with OVD-Info report.Several mourners detained at makeshift memorials to the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have been handed
Petersburg, local mediareported Wednesday.Police havearrested hundreds of people across Russia for laying flowers at memorials in the days
since Navalny died at a remote Arctic prison.At least six mourners in St
Petersburg received military summonses after being released from a police detention center, according to the Telegram news channel
Navalny mourners.Kremlin critics have noted that Russian authorities often use the threat of military service as a form of punishment amid a
wider wartime crackdown on dissent.Navalny died at age 47 at the prison colony where he was being held on charges widely seen as retribution
for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin.The news of Navalny's death triggered an outpouring of grief and anger among his supporters
