"Everyone will understand everything": a selection of symbolic places that have become memorials in various cities across the country

While authorities in the regions are preventing public expressions of grief To Alexei NavalnyWhile security forces guard monuments to victims of repression, people find other places.

В Petersburg Flowers and a note appeared near the sculpture Prometheus, because Alexei “brought fire to people, and continues to do so,” and near the stone on the embankment, from where outstanding figures in philosophy, culture, and science left for forced exile in 1922.

In Arkhangelsk Severodvinsk A portrait of Navalny and two carnations were attached to a banner with an image of Sergei Bodrov and the phrase "Power is in the truth".

Flowers were left near a monument in Penza. prisoners of concentration campsof the Krasnodar - on memorial "brutally murdered by Hitler's executioners."

В Voronezh и Vladivostok monuments became places of remembrance To Osip Mandelstam, who died in a transit camp. Izhevsk monument Udmurt writer To Kuzebay Gerd, who was shot in 1937. In Kaluga — Human Rights Alley.

A resident of Kemerovo Prokopyevsk brought a photograph of Alexei for the statue Of Christ, because Navalny “turned out to be a bearer of Christian ethics, a righteous man and a passion-bearer.”

"These days, all you have to do is leave flowers in any public place, and everyone will understand."- wrote political scientist Abbas Gallyamov.

It's not only flowers that remind us of Navalny these days, but also, for example, inscription in red paint on the snow "He's not dead, he's killed" duck stickers on the pillars or the phrase "Russia will be free" on bench in Yekaterinburg and on display by the police barriers in Moscow.