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The body of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow on Friday to the defiant refrain of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” — as thousands challenged President Vladimir Putin by paying final respects to his fiercest critic, many chanting “Putin is a murderer.”
Video from the Barisovskoye cemetery showed the 47-year-old dissident’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, clad in a black scarf, making the sign of the cross over her dead son’s body and his father, Anatoly, kissing him on the brow.
Navalny was then draped in a white shroud before the coffin lid was shut.
It was then lowered to the sounds of Sinatra’s iconic 1968 song of independence — followed by a selection from the soundtrack of “Terminator 2,” Navalny’s favorite movie.
Crowds of mourners, many carrying flowers, waited outside the cemetery to bid farewell to Navalny while chanting his name.