 Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow today, exactly two weeks after his death. Thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects to the former opposition figure, expressing defiance and calling Navalny a true hero, despite a large police presence and barricades set up in the area, mourners burst into applause as his body was taken into a church outside Moscow. Those in attendance risk arrest for showing support for Navalny.Navalny's funeral may be the last rally in Russia, says build columnist Julian Roth. Impressive images reach us from the Russian capital. Pictures of defiance, pride and courage. Thousands of people defy threats and possible arrests from the Putin regime to say goodbye to the last liberal opponent of the dictator. Just by being near a temple in a cemetery, they are risking their jobs, freedom and perhaps even life, as the alleged murder of their leader shows. But it was not just sympathy for the death of a Kremlin critic that forced them to take to the streets. Alexei Navalny's funeral may be their last chance to publicly demonstrate that there is another Russia and that not everyone in Moscow capitulated to dictator Putin. The journalist writes that he notes that soon after the start of the war in Ukraine, totalitarian Russia began to ban all demonstrations against the omnipotence of the leadership. Even the most cautious criticism, even in private, is persecuted and severely punished by the regime, that is why today was probably the last mass quasi-rally against the Putin regime, which was not nipped in the bud by the secret services, Special Forces. With the death of Navalny, Putin overcomes one of the last obstacles on the path to unlimited claims to power over the largest country in the world, which shows increasingly fascist features.