Russia tells Alexei Navalny's mother: 'Agree within three hours to a private funeral for your son or we bury him in the prison'

Russia has given Alexei Navalny’s mother an ultimatum after she demanded that Kremlin officials return her son’s body immediately. 

Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said today that Russian authorities had told Lyudmila Navalnaya that he would be buried in the penal colony where he died unless she agreed within three hours to lay him to rest without a public funeral.

Yarmash said Navalnaya was refusing and continuing to demand that his body be handed to her. There was no immediate comment…