Power Beyond Death (with Alexei Navalny)

REPORTAGE HAIKU

The Navalny Memorial, London. Photo by Morgan Buchanan

He saw the great joke,

and told the world without fear-

power beyond death.

-Alexei Navalny Haiku 13/3/2023

As I was walking past the Embassy of the Russian Federation, just before the entrance to Kensington Gardens, I noticed a memorial set up to the memory of the assassinated Russian opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny. The flowers and signs weren't in front of the Russian compound but rather across the road on the street before the Embassy of Guyana. You can read the signs in the photos. The one I liked contained just three words written on a piece of cardboard - TRUTH, BRAVERY, HUMOUR.

The last photo is of the Russian embassy.