Navalny died suddenly last February in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving sentences totalling more than 30 years on a variety of charges he rejected as attempts to silence his criticism of President Vladimir Putin. He was 47.

Putin is doing this to scare you. He wants you to be afraid even to mention Alexei and gradually forget his name’

Rosfinmonitoring refused to remove the deceased oppositionist Alexei Navalny from the list of terrorists, as revealed by his widow, Julia Navalnaya. As expected, Vladimir Putin seeks revenge on his opponent even after his death.