The parents of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in mid-February, thanked thousands of Russians who came to pay their respects at his grave in Moscow after his burial nearly ten days ago, AFP reports.

“Our great gratitude and our bow to everyone who came and continues to come to the cemetery, to those who bring flowers, write about Oleksiy, who remembers our son and prays for him!” – said in a written note published by Oleksiy on Saturday . Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalny.

“Thank you for remembering, this memory gives us hope!” — concluded Anatoliy Navalnyi and Lyudmila Navalna.

After the funeral of Alexei Navalny on March 1, thousands of Russians came to his grave, covered with a mountain of flowers, and continue to come every day to rest.

After the death of Oleksiy Navalny on February 16 in a prison in the Arctic, his mother had to fight with the Russian authorities for several days to get her son’s lifeless body and cremate it.

The opposition, Vladimir Putin’s arch-enemy, has accused Russian authorities of his assassination and attempts to cover up his involvement, which the Kremlin denies.

Yulia Navalana, who is forced to live abroad to avoid imprisonment in Russia, has vowed to continue her husband’s fight and called on his supporters to gather at the polls on March 17, the last day of the country’s presidential election.

(Agerpress)