INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A public farewell for late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny will be held later this week, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmyshsaid
mass crowds paying tribute to him ahead of the March 15-17 presidential election, which Vladimir Putin is certain to win.Navalny died Feb
16 at the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges widely seen as retribution for his opposition to
followed by mass displays of grief across Russia, with people laying flowers at makeshift memorials in dozens of towns and cities.
