"Navalny's Widow Takes Lead in Fight Against Putin Amid Body Controversy"

Alexei Navalny's mother has been told she must wait 14 days to receive her son’s body as authorities conduct a “chemical examination”, with his wife Yulia Navalnaya alleging that the Kremlin is waiting for traces of the Novichok nerve agent to disappear from his body. Navalny’s ally Ivan Zhdanov denounced the Russian authorities for the delay in handing over the Putin critic’s body, while nearly 400 people have been detained in Russia for paying respects to Navalny. The US and British ambassadors also mourned Navalny’s death at a memorial in Moscow, and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for an independent international investigation into the causes of Alexei Navalny’s death.