The funeral for Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny

At least 115 people have been detained across Russia for paying tribute to late opposition leader Alexey Navalny on Friday, according to monitoring group OVD-Info.

The largest number of people, 16, were detained in the city of Novosibirsk.

At least 10 people have been detained in the capital Moscow, where Navalny was buried, according to OVD-Info. Another 10 were detained in Yekaterinburg, the group said, with 14 held in the Voronezh region.

People were also detained in Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Vladikavkaz, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Ulan-Ude, among other cities, according to OVD-Info.

This post has been updated with the latest figures from OVD-Info.

Alexey Navalny's daughter Dasha Navalnaya vowed to make her father proud in an Instagram post on Friday, the day of his funeral.

Navalnaya also said that her father will forever remain “an example” to live by, calling him her “role model” and her “hero.”

Navalny was laid to rest at a Moscow cemetery Friday, exactly two weeks after his death was announced by Russia’s prison service. While his parents were present at the funeral, his widow and children were not.

Many hundreds of mourners have been allowed into the cemetery to pay their respects to the opposition leader.

Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow for the funeral of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny Friday despite a heavy police presence and the threat of detention.

The first image released from the funeral service displayed an open casket — showing just his face with his body covered in flowers. His coffin was lowered into a grave to the sound of Frank Sinatra’s "My Way."

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Where it happened: The funeral service was held at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Quench My Sorrows" in Moscow. His burial site is the Borisovsky cemetery in Moscow’s Maryino district, where Navalny lived.

Who was in attendance: Navalny's parents attended the funeral ceremony and the burial. Video from the cemetery showed his father Anatoly leaning forward to kiss the forehead of his son as Navalny’s body lay in an open casket. Also present were foreign diplomats, including the US Ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy. Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has been living abroad and was not present. She said ahead of the funeral that she was concerned police would crack down on mourners. In a message released on Friday, she posted a video with the caption: "Thank you for 26 years of absolute happiness."

What the Kremlin said: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told CNN on Friday he has “nothing” to say to Navalny's family; however, he did warn Russians against unauthorized memorials. “Any unauthorized gathering will be in violation of the law. Accordingly, those who will participate in it will bear responsibility under the laws in place,” Peskov told journalists on a regularly scheduled call on Friday. 

Defiant mourners showed up in large numbers: As Navalny's body arrived at the church, video shared by Navalny’s team showed mourners clapping. Other videos have shown people chanting “Navalny,” "no to war" and "Russia without Putin." After the funeral ceremony was over, a number of mourners pushed over crowd control barriers in an apparent effort to follow his funeral procession, a video from the church site showed. Finally, as Navalny was laid to rest, several videos showed a large number of people streaming toward the burial site, and a line several hundred meters long formed at the Brateyevsky Bridge. Multiple mourners told CNN they were not afraid of any possible repercussions from the government for their attendance.

Russians pay respects: CNN saw at least some of the many hundreds of mourners who converged at the Borisovsky cemetery allowed into the burial site to pay their respects to Navalny. It was a large but organized affair: A small orchestra near his grave played music as people passed by one by one.

Dozens detained across Russia: At least 45 people have been detained for paying tribute to Navalny on Friday, according to monitoring group OVD-Info.

Broadcast of ceremony likely jammed: The live signal of the CNN team covering the funeral of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in Moscow appeared to be blocked. Approximately 20 minutes before the funeral is scheduled to begin, no live pictures from the church were available. The feed organized by Navalny’s team was also not showing live coverage of the scene. Then just around the time that the service was over, CNN's signal was back up. Russian state news agencies and broadcasters gave very limited space to the funeral and burial.

A number of European leaders commemorated Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny with social media tributes on Friday. 

Alexey Navalny had long been a thorn in the side of Russian President Vladimir Putin, exposing corruption in high places, campaigning against the ruling United Russia party and orchestrating some of the biggest anti-government protests seen in recent years.

His imprisonment in 2021 sparked scores of demonstrations across Russia, leading to thousands of detentions. From prison, Navalny denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine via social media and encouraged anti-war protests across the country.

The Kremlin critic was quietly relocated to a penal colony in Siberia in December 2023 — a move that sparked a two-week search by his team who lost contact with him during the unannounced transfer.

Navalny was detained and sent to a Russian prison in 2021 after he had returned to Russia from Germany, where he was recovering from Novichok poisoning he blamed on the Russian government. The Kremlin repeatedly denied any involvement.

Putin has long refused to utter Navalny’s name. He described the extensive media investigations into the 2020 Novichok poisoning as fabrications by Western intelligence and said in December 2020 that if Russian security services had wanted to kill the activist, they “would have finished” the job.

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A small orchestra near Alexey Navalny's grave played music as people passed by, one by one, to pay their respects to the late opposition leader.

CNN's team had to walk through metal detectors placed at the immediate entrance to the cemetery. Authorities were letting people inside the cemetery in small groups. Everyone was asked to keep moving to avoid blocking the route.

As CNN's team was leaving the site, the line of people who were waiting to enter the cemetery was still massive. 

At least some of the many hundreds of mourners who have converged at the Borisovsky cemetery have been allowed into the burial site to pay their respects to opposition leader Alexey Navalny, a CNN team in Moscow reported.

A well-organized operation is in place, with separate lines for entry and exit to the burial site, the team reported. Police are addressing people politely via loudspeaker and instructing them where to walk.

Video released on one X (formerly Twitter) account of Navalny’s supporters shows people filing past his grave and casting handfuls of earth into it. Some mourners chanted “Thank you for your son” to Lyudmila Navalnaya, Navalny’s mother, who is seen sitting near the grave at the cemetery as people walk through.

The last image we saw of Alexey Navalny alive was him smiling and joking. The final image before he was laid to rest is more sobering. Conforming with Orthodox tradition, the body of the Russian opposition figure is pictured in an open casket. A man who was once politically and physically energetic and fiery, is now still and at peace.

It is a haunting image, with candles illuminating the scene. Navalny’s face appears almost ghostly white amid the piles of carnations that cover his chest. His mother and father are seated beside the coffin, clasping each other's hands, saying goodbye to their son.

It is the culmination of a quest that his mother embarked on 14 days ago when she traveled across Russia's vast wilderness, above the Arctic Circle and to the Siberian penal colony where Navalny met his end, to badger Russian authorities into allowing her to retrieve the body.

In the casket, Navalny is dressed in a shirt, tie and waistcoat – a change from his prison swatches, and a reminder that he was once a prominent politician.

Gaunt and sunken even before his death, Navalny's lifeless face represents the energy that was sucked out by the Kremlin and its remote penal colony.

It is a picture that defines the moment – the extinguishing of political opposition in Russia.

Thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects as the former opposition figure Alexey Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow today, exactly two weeks after his death was announced by Russia’s prison service.

They were present in and outside the church where the funeral service took place and also walked with the procession to the burial site.

At times, the crowds were heard chanting "we won't forget," "no to war" and "Russia without Putin."

Here are some photos from the day: