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The mother of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp, has been granted access to his body after days of waiting. Lyudmila Navalnaya was shown her son’s body in the morgue but was not given it, she said in a video posted online on Thursday. According to the authorities, Navalny died on Friday in a prison camp in the Russian polar region. Since then, his mother has been trying to retrieve his body. In the video, Lyudmila Navalnaya again demanded that the body be handed over to her so that she could bury him. She has accused Moscow of wanting to secretly bury Navalny. …

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