MOSCOW: “I really like you,” the widow of Alexei Navalny stated on Sunday (Feb 18) in a publish on social media beside an image of them collectively, two days after President Vladimir Putin’s most outstanding home foe died in a Russian jail.
Yulia Navalnaya’s publish on Instagram, the primary since her husband died, confirmed an image of the 2 collectively, their heads touching as they watched a efficiency.
It introduced a private be aware to the loss she expressed extra formally on a public stage simply hours after her husband’s dying was introduced by the Russian jail service.
Navalny, 47, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a stroll on the “Polar Wolf” penal colony within the Arctic the place he was serving a three-decade sentence, the jail service stated. There are nonetheless few particulars of why he died.
On Friday afternoon, Navalnaya appeared earlier than an viewers of leaders, diplomats and different officers on the Munich Safety Convention, saying she had weighed popping out on stage or instantly leaving to be with the couple’s two kids, Daria and Zakhar, deciding her husband would need her to talk.
If the information of his dying was true, Navalnaya, 47, stated, “I would like Putin, his total entourage, Putin’s pals, his authorities to know that they may bear accountability for what they did to our nation, to my household, to my husband”.
Western leaders led by US President Joe Biden paid tribute to Navalny’s braveness and, with out citing proof, accused Putin of being answerable for the dying. Britain stated there could be penalties for Russia.
The Kremlin stated the West’s response was unacceptable and “completely rabid”. Putin has but to touch upon Navalny’s dying.
Russian authorities seen Navalny and his supporters as extremists with hyperlinks to the CIA intelligence company, which they are saying is looking for to destabilise Russia. Navalny at all times dismissed accusations he was a CIA asset.
Navalnaya might be again in a public discussion board on Monday, the European Union’s overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell stated she would attend the EU’s Overseas Affairs Council.
