Alexei Navalny’s body FINALLY released by Putin to his grieving mother Lyudmila, eight days after he was killed in prison

THE BODY of the late Russian opposition leader has finally been returned to his mother.

It comes as pressure on Putin has increased from Navalny mother, Lyudmila Ivanovna, and the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Details about the funeral are not yet known.

Navalny’s mother Lyudmila, 69, had originally been as well blocked from seeing her son’s remains – with reports that he was left battered and bruised.

It had only been two days, eight painful days after her son’s death Lyudmila was shown her son’s body.

Vladimir PutinIt is believed that the film’s most loyal critic has been murdered Polar Wolf penal colony where he was jailed on trumped-up charges.

The grieving mother claimed that Russian officials tried to blackmail her and threatened to do ‘something’ with the corpse.

“They want this to happen in secret, without goodbye. They want to take me to the edge of a cemetery, to a new grave and say: here lies your son. I do not agree with this,” she said in a speech . YouTube video.