Standing under grey skies and holding red and white bouquets, Russians lined up patiently along pavements leading towards opposition politician Alexei Navalny's funeral on March 1, two weeks after his death in a Siberian penal colony.
By the time the coffin was being driven to a cemetery on the opposite bank of the Moskva River, thousands had gathered, chanting Navalny's name.
Some called Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Navalny's allies accuse of ordering his death, a murderer.
The Kremlin, which cast Navalny and his supporters as United States-backed extremists out to foment revolution, denies any state involvement in his death.
The protest went little further.
The Kremlin said any unsanctioned gatherings in support of Navalny would violate the law, and the police were deployed hours before the funeral, erecting metal barriers.
Mourners were forced to mill around a short distance from the site of the funeral, the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in the Moscow district of Maryino, where Navalny used to live, and from the Borisovskoye cemetery where he was later taken and buried.
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