Alexei Navalny’s body FINALLY released to his grieving mum Lyudmila by Putin 8 days after he was murdered in prison

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

It comes after pressure mounted on Putin from Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Ivanovna, and the Russian Orthodox Church.

AFP

Alexei Navalny’s body has finally been returned to his grieving mother[/caption]

Details of the funeral are yet to be announced.

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

Vladimir Putin‘s staunchest critic is believed to have been murdered at the Polar Wolf penal colony where he was jailed on trumped-up charges.