A few hours before Alexei Navalny's funeral in Moscow, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said they continue to face difficulties in organizing the ceremony and finding a hearse to take the body to church.

The BBC reports it.

The funeral will be held at 2pm local time in a church on the southern outskirts of Moscow, the Temple of the Icon of the Mother of God. The burial should begin at 4pm in the nearby Borisovsky cemetery.

All places far from the center and not easily reachable by everyone. The police are preparing to control the area as much as possible to prevent the funeral of Vladimir Putin's main political opponent - whose death in prison casts the shadow of the Kremlin - from turning into an anti-government demonstration.

Videos and images of the cemetery "show metal fences, metal detectors and surveillance cameras installed before the funeral", writes the Moscow Times, while Meduza cites Telegram channels according to which agents are already in the cemetery area. The chargé d'affaires of the Italian embassy in Moscow Pietro Sferra Carini will participate in the ceremony, as will representatives of other European countries. While three Italian parliamentarians (Benedetto Della Vedova of +Europa, Lia Quartapelle of the Pd and Ivan Scalfarotto of Italia Viva) denounced in a press conference in Montecitorio the fact that they were denied a visa by Moscow.

(Unioneonline/D)

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