Alexei Navalny's body has been handed over to his mother, an aide says
![A woman places a piece of paper with words of grief for Alexei Navalny paying the last respect to him at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/02/24/ap24055478176052-4ebea60c934150ad7ab3ba535ab258552664668e.jpg)
The director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation thanked "everyone" who had called on Russian authorities to return the Russian opposition leader's body to his mother.
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