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Alexei Navalny’s Widow Vows To Continue His Fight Against Kremlin
In a video that went viral, Yulia Navalnaya, with an occasionally shaky voice, claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had killed her husband in the isolated jail and that the refusal of the authorities to give her mother-in-law the body was a cover-up.
The cause of Mr. Navalny’s death, which occurred on Friday at the age of 47, is still unknown, according to Russian officials, and any investigation’s findings are probably going to be contested elsewhere.
Numerous Western officials have publicly declared that they believe Mr. Putin is to blame for the tragedy.
With less than a month to go before an election that will almost certainly give Mr. Putin another six years in office, the Russian opposition has lost its most well-known and inspirational politician due to Mr. Navalny’s passing.
Many Russians, who saw Mr. Navalny as a rare prospect for political reform amidst Mr. Putin’s relentless onslaught on the opposition, were devastated by it.
Mr. Navalny was detained since January 2021, when he was brought back to Moscow following his recovery in Germany from a nerve agent poisoning he attributed to the Kremlin.
After his arrest, he has been sentenced to three years in prison on several counts that he had dismissed as having political motivations.
Ms. Navalnaya suggested her husband might have been killed with a nerve agent similar to Novichok, saying, “They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give it to his mother and lying miserably while waiting for the trace of” poison to dissipate.
In an appeal for support, she said that she wanted Russians “to share not only my rage, but also the grief and endless pain that has enveloped and gripped us.”
Ms Navalnaya continued: “The main thing that we can do for Alexei and ourselves is to keep fighting. We all need to get together in one strong fist and strike that mad regime.”
According to a Russian investigator, Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Mr. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, stated on Monday that Mr. Navalny’s body would not be transferred to his mother for 14 days while a chemical examination was conducted.
The nation’s top criminal investigation body, the Investigative Committee, notified Lyudmila Navalnaya that the formal investigation into her death had been prolonged, according to Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh.
On X, a platform that was formerly Twitter, Ms. Yarmysh said, “They lie, buy time for themselves and do not even hide it.”
After the initial, brief statement from the authorities regarding Mr. Navalny’s death, many Russians conjectured about what might have happened to him. Reports from unaffiliated Russian media sources attempted to provide some insight into his demise.
Some questioned the official story, but it was impossible to corroborate their claims.
