Allies of the late Alexei Navalny vow to continue their opposition to Putin as Russia's presidential elections near.
For days after the funeral of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, thousands of people continued to line up outside the cemetery in southern Moscow waiting to lay flowers at his grave.
But while the funeral showed dissent still exists in Russia, it also underlined how much control the Kremlin now has. Navalny's death in an Arctic prison colony last month has blown an enormous hole in Russia's democracy movement and opposition to Putin appears to have never been more dangerous. "We have no choice but to continue," Leonid Volkov, Navalny's longtime chief of staff, told ABC News in an interview this month.
Volkov blamed the assault on Putin. "This is obviously a typical, characteristically gangster-ish hello from Putin," Volkov said in the video posted after the attack. In the run-up to the election, there were still glimpses of anti-war sentiment that exists below the surface. Asked why he was able to criticize the war and campaign when others face arrest and persecution, Nadezhdin said it was primarily because, unlike Navalny, he never criticized Putin personally. He said it is also because he has personally known some Kremlin senior officials for more than two decades.
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