The Russian government has rejected accusations that it has been trying to pressure relatives of the late opposition figure Alexei Navalny into burying him in private, after his body was finally released on Saturday. “Of course the Kremlin cannot exert any pressure. These are further absurd statements by (Navalny’s) supporters,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency on Monday. The body of Navalny, who died in a Siberian prison aged 47 on February 16, was only handed over to his mother on Saturday after days of waiting and pleading with the authorities, including a direc…