More than 40 countries on Monday called for an independent international investigation into the death of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. EU members, the United States, Britain, Ukraine, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway were among the countries to voice outrage over Navalny’s death at the UN Human Rights Council. Navalny, 47, who died in an Arctic prison colony, was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday, surrounded by large crowds of defiant mourners who chanted his name. “We are outraged by the death of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, for which the ultimate re…