Steve Rosenberg: What Navalny's funeral tells us about Russia today - BBC News

Were the chanting crowds a last liberal hurrah. or are dreams of democracy still alive, asks Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage source, ReutersImage caption, Alexei Navalny was one of Putin's most outspoken criticsBy Steve RosenbergRussia EditorWe witness events, and we report on them. But in the age of 24-hour news, there is often precious little time for journalists to pause, take breath and take in the magnitude of what has happened.

In the hours after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, I was filing non-stop for TV, radio and the BBC news website.

Only at 2am the following morning, after my last TV live of the day, could I stop and try to compute the enormity of the moment. It has been the same with Alexei Navalny.

For two weeks I have been reporting on the death of Russia's most prominent opposition leader in an Arctic penal colony.

I talked about the problems his family had encountered as they tried to recover his body; I spoke to Muscovites laying floral tributes to him.

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