A day after the funeral on Friday of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, people continued on Saturday to bid farewell to the Russian dissident at his grave in Moscow's Borisov cemetery, undeterred by the presence of police.
Independent Russian media reported that the police allowed the mourners to stay unhindered at the grave and lay flowers.
Pictures of the gravesite showed a sea of flowers and wreaths, and a Russian Orthodox cross with a photo of a smiling Navalny.
According to the authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in a prison camp in the Yamal region, 1,900 kilometres north-east of Moscow, at the age of 47. The circumstances of his death have not been clarified.
Following Friday's funeral, Navalny's team emphasized once again that the opposition, which had fled into exile abroad, would continue its fight against corruption and the power apparatus of President Vladimir Putin.
Navalny's legacy will remain alive "as long as there are millions of people in Russia and the world who are not indifferent to this," they said. "That's why we must not give up."
On the day of the funeral, memorial events took place across the country, with dozens of arrests.
The civil rights platform OVD-Info reported on Saturday morning that there had been more than 100 arrests in 20 cities, including around 20 people in Novosibirsk alone.
In Moscow, thousands of people gathered at the church and cemetery for the funeral service on Friday. Many chanted "Putin is a murderer!" and "Russia without Putin".
Relatives, supporters and human rights activists accuse Putin of murdering his opponent in the prison camp where he was held.
The politician, weakened by an earlier poison attack and repeated solitary confinement, is said to have collapsed in the icy prison yard and died despite attempts to resuscitate him.
The Kremlin rejects responsibility for his death, while continuing preparations for elections on March 15-17 that are expected to install Putin for a fifth term.
