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In the days since Alexei Navalny’s death, people have kept coming to lay flowers at two sites in the heart of Moscow which commemorate the victims of Soviet repression.<\/p>\n

One is the Solovetsky Stone, right beside the FSB’s headquarters on Lubyanka Square; the other is the so-called ‘Wall of Grief’, a more recent memorial site, which is as harshly emotive as the name suggests.<\/p>\n

Police tell them to move on, not to linger.<\/p>\n

Navalny’s wife shares goodbye photograph – latest updates<\/strong><\/p>\n

After close to 400 arrests in cities across the country, people are aware they risk being detained if they outstay their welcome or do so much as unfurl a banner or photo of Navalny.<\/p>\n

Plain clothes men in masks, presumably FSB, watch on with video cameras in hand, filming or photographing the trail of visitors.<\/p>\n

It’s not clear what they’ll do with the material beyond store it up for use further down the line, but it makes an already tense atmosphere all the more uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

On Sunday afternoon, as we filmed at the Solovetsky Stone, we were told we had seven minutes to film.<\/p>\n

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We took the police at their word.<\/p>\n

Around the Russian capital, the security presence is markedly higher than normal, with OMON riot police stationed alongside regular forces.<\/p>\n

It is nothing on the numbers around some of the demonstrations on Navalny’s return in 2021 or at the start of the war, but for people laying carnations it is a lot.<\/p>\n

Still, this is a security state. It is to be expected.<\/p>\n

The fact there are so many who still come to pay their respects even on the third day after his death shows the impact Navalny had – and the loss felt by so many in Russia that he died in the name of their freedom.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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