Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. Several Moscow churches refused to hold the service before Navalny’s team got permission from one in the capital’s Maryino district. That’s where he once lived in 2020 before his poisoning, treatment in Germany and subsequent arrest on his return to Russia. Authorities lined the road from a nearby subway station to the church with crowd control barriers, and riot police deployed in big numbers early Friday. His team said a hearse set out with Navalny’s body toward the church.