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Alexei Navalny’s team says hearse drivers refusing to take his body for high-security Moscow funeral

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Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow on Friday amid tight security, fears of police crackdown, and difficulties targeting his funeral ceremony, his team said.

The memorial service comes two weeks after the 47-year-old Russian opposition politician suddenly died in an Arctic penal colony and his immediate family struggled to access his body. His team has of being complicit in the death under mysterious circumstances of the fierce Kremlin critic.

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