Hundreds of people in Russia have gathered for the funeral service of Alexei Navalny, the vocal Putin critic who died in jail last month.
Despite a large police presence and barricades set up in the area, mourners burst into applause as his body was taken into a church outside Moscow on Friday morning.
“You weren’t afraid, and neither are we!”, they shouted.
Those in attendance risk arrest for showing support for Navalny.
His wife has blamed President Vladimir Putin for his death, but Moscow says he died of natural causes.
The opposition leader died on 16 February in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle. He had been jailed for three years on trumped-up charges.
The memorial service began just after 14:00 Moscow time (11:00 GMT) at the Church of the Icon of Our Lady Quench My Sorrows, in Maryino.
Among those pictured near the church ahead of the funeral service were foreign dignitaries, including the US, German and French ambassadors.
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