In The Hague, a bench appeared near the Russian Embassy in memory of Alexei Navalny

On November 8, the opening ceremony of a memorial bench in memory of Alexei Navalny took place in The Hague. It was attended, among others, by the widow of the politician Yulia Navalnaya.

A bench with a sign “Alexey Navalny (1976-2024), died for freedom” is installed next to the Russian embassy.

The initiator of the installation of the memorial bench was a resident of the Netherlands, Liz Hollman, Dozhd reports.

“I don’t have any Russian roots or family members there, but I really admire his courage. Every time I watched a video of him or a documentary about him, I thought, I wish I had a little courage like him. “I’m really very impressed by what he did for his country, putting his own interests into the background,” she told Dozhd.

• In 2024, Dozhd recalls, Liz Hollman asked to rename the street near the Russian Embassy in The Hague in honor of Navalny. The petition for renaming was signed by more than 85 thousand people, but city authorities reminded that, according to the rules, at least ten years must pass from the death of the person after whom the street is named.