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The daughter of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, an open critic of President Vladimir Putin, has accused Russia of treating the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the most horrible, inhuman and monstrous way.
She points out that this shows President Putin's fear of Navalny's legacy.
"Vladimir Putin fears Navalny's dead body more than Navalny alive," Zhenna Nemtsova told Current Time, a week after Russian authorities announced that Navalny died after passing out in an Arctic prison.
"This regime will seriously regret what it has done," Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said in 2019.
Nemtsova's father was a prominent politician turned vocal critic of Putin who, like Navalny, produced detailed reports on corruption before he was killed.
Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow in February 2015, just weeks after publicly expressing fears that Putin might kill him.
Nemtsova said Russian state television initially "covered my father's event very favorably, but everything changed...when the funeral took place" which proved her father's popularity, as tens of thousands of Russians attended the funeral.
As a result, Russian authorities called against mourning Nemtsov and ignored harassment of Nemtsov's sympathizers by ultranationalists.
"They understand that the same will happen to Alexei Navalny" if public memorials are allowed, said Nemtsova.
Russia has increased its use of tools such as "foreign agents" and "undesirables" designations, in addition to brutal beatings and arrests, to minimize public opposition.
Russian police arrested hundreds of people across the country after Navalny's death and quickly removed all the makeshift memorials that citizens had put up in dozens of cities.
Navalny's widow and mother have blamed Putin for his death, as have US President Joe Biden and several other Western officials.
Russian officials have denied being responsible for his death, but are still holding the opposition leader's body and are reported to have requested a private burial before handing over the mother's body.
"I believe that Alexei was killed by order of Putin, and they are afraid that on the eve of the elections, hundreds of thousands of people will go to say goodbye to Alexei ," said Nemtsova.
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