Alexei Navalny funeral draws thousands to heavily policed Moscow church

Western diplomats attend as chanting crowd pays tribute to opposition leader who died in Arctic penal colony

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Defying the Kremlin's warning of arrests, thousands of mourners have gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, two weeks after Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic died in an Arctic prison.

Crowds of people chanted Putin is a murderer" and No to war" as they marched, under heavy police presence, to the Borisovsky cemetery where Navalny, 47, was lowered into the ground on Friday to the strains of Frank Sinatra's My Way.