Participants of the “White Counter” project said that they were counting the participants in the farewell ceremony for Alexei Navalny on one of the sections of the route.
Activists spent an hour counting the number of people who crossed the Brateevsky Bridge over the Moskva River towards the cemetery — they came up with 10,866 people — and added to these data an estimate of how many people could cross the bridge half an hour before their start. research. As a result, they came up with 16.5 thousand people.
The authors of the study noted that the resulting number allows them to estimate only the minimum number of people who came, since it does not take into account people who arrived at the farewell of others by a route other than across the bridge, and at another time.
According to OVD-Info, a total of 14 people were detained in Moscow during the farewell to the oppositionist yesterday at the Borisov cemetery, and across the country that day security forces detained 103 people.
Corrected at 20:44. The headline has been corrected because the original version incorrectly stated that the resulting figure applies to the entire route and time of the funeral.