Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, is to visit Brussels on Monday where she will meet with EU foreign ministers and European Council President Charles Michel.
The invitation to Navalnaya sends "a strong message of support to freedom fighters in Russia" and honours the memory of Navalny, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
After the news of her husband's death in a Siberian penal colony was released on Friday, Navalnaya addressed the Munich Security Conference and called on the international community to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to justice.
Navalny's body is lying in the district hospital in the northern Siberian town of Salekhard directly on the Arctic Circle, the independent Russian-language newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Sunday.
No autopsy had been conducted on the dissident up to Saturday, the anti-government newspaper currently being published from Latvia said.
Navalny's unexpected death at the age of 47 in the Polar Wolf penal colony has generated international outrage.
Novaya Gazeta said its informant, an anonymous emergency services worker, had reported blue marks on the body. Navalny's relatives have not yet been granted access to his body. Polar Wolf lies some 50 kilometres north of Salekhard.
According to the Russian authorities, Navalny collapsed while exercising in freezing conditions. Attempts to revive him failed.
Human rights activists have termed his death a murder, and Navalny's death has drawn condemnation from leaders of several countries, including US President Joe Biden.
