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Pallbearers carry the coffin of Sergei Kovalev, Russia’s first human rights commissioner, after a ceremony in Moscow. Kovalev, who died this month aged 91, was a chronicler of Soviet abuses of power and served seven years in the notorious Perm-36 camp, returning to Moscow in 1986 on the orders of Mikhail Gorbachev. But he later clashed with Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin over democratic backsliding.
