“Putin = killer” read a large banner as dozens of Russian immigrants honored the memory of Alexei Navalny near the Tower Bridge in downtown Sacramento on Tuesday night.
Navalny died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony. His funeral will take place on Friday in Moscow, the Associated Press reports.
The Sacramento region is home to about 20,000 Russian immigrants — many associated with the country’s dissident movement — as well as a sizable population of native Ukrainians.
Tuesday’s candlelight vigil again brought both populations together as they stood in solidarity against two years of war in Ukraine after Russian’s invasion of that country. Many banners and signs also remembered Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader who was killed on a bridge near the Kremlin in 2015.
“Since we have this great opportunity to be vocal and stay vocal in this county – which is true democracy – we must do that,” said Iana Trotsiuk, a member of the group Voices of Russian Opposition. “In our homeland, people were silenced. There is no more freedom of speech.”
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