The Australian – driving for the newly rebranded RB team – saw off Lando Norris by just 0.032 seconds, with Oscar Piastri third in the other McLaren.
Navalny died this month at a remote Arctic penal colony.
Rustan Umerov said that each delayed aid shipment meant Ukrainian troop losses.
Ivan Zhdanov thanked ‘everyone’ who had called on Russian authorities to return Mr Navalny’s body to his mother.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez promised support for those affected.
Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son’s body in the city morgue.
Vladimir Kara-Murza spoke from his prison cell as he serves a 25-year sentence for treason.
Lord Cameron signalled that there could be fresh sanctions against Russia officials, following the death of Alexei Navalny.
The attack came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continued his shake-up of military commanders with the conflict entering its third year.
Bjorn Hocke is an influential figure on the hard right of Alternative for Germany party.
Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi spoke a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky put him in charge of the battlefield campaign against Russia’s invasion.
The move follows days of speculation that General Valerii Zaluzhnyi would be sacked and amounts to a major shake-up of Ukraine’s war strategy.
Moscow-installed officials blamed Ukraine.
The progressive rock band Bi-2 are being held in a Thai immigration centre.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr was being held in a prison in the Omsk region.
