Navalny’s spokesman, Kira Yarmysh, said on X, formerly Twitter, that Navalnaya was shown a medical certificate stating that the 47-year-old politician died of “natural causes.” Yarmysh didn’t specify what those were.Posting on social media, prominent public figures have appealed directly to Putin to demand that he return Navalny’s body to his family.“Just give Lyudmila her son,” Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov said, adding, “It’s awkward to talk about this in a country that still considers itself Christian.”Nadya Tolokonnikova, who became widely known after spending nearly two years in prison for taking part in a 2012 protest with the band Pussy Riot inside Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, also released a video.“We were imprisoned for allegedly trampling on traditional values. But no one tramples on traditional Russian values more than you, Putin, your officials and your priests who pray for all the murder that you do, year after year, day after day,” Tolokonnikova said.“Putin, have a conscience, give his mother the body of her son,” she added.Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov said he “firmly requests” authorities return “the body of the murdered Alexei Navalny to his mother.”Navalny’s mother has filed a lawsuit at a court in Salekhard contesting officials’ refusal to release her son’s body. A closed-door hearing has been scheduled for March 4. On Tuesday, she appealed to Putin to release her son’s remains so that she could bury him with dignity.In a video on Monday, Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnay a, accused Putin of killing her husband and alleged the refusal to release his body was part of a cover-up.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the allegations, calling them “absolutely unfounded, insolent accusations about the head of the Russian state.”Zhdanov on Friday announced a reward of 50,000 euros for “comprehensive information” about what happened to Navalny.
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