The ministers of EU Foreign Relationsmeeting in Brussels, This Monday they incorporated Yulia Navalnaya as a guestthe widow of the Russian opponent Alexei Navalny.
The statement by Alexei Navalni’s widow about his death
“Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny. Putin killed the father of my children,” said Yulia Navalnaya, holding back tears in a video published this Monday on social networks. “With him, (Putin) wanted to kill our spirit, our freedom, our future,” she added.
“They couldn’t break my husband, that’s why Putin killed him”Navalnaya stated, adding that Alexei was “mistreated, isolated from the world” and “still he did not give up.” The opponent’s wife promised to find out “who carried out this crime” and under what circumstances.
“I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny. I will continue through our country, with you. I ask you all to be by my side (…). “It is not a shame to do little, it is a shame to do nothing, it is a shame to allow yourself to be afraid,” declared.
The union of Navalni’s supporters and the request of the widow of the Russian opponent
Her notoriety led some Navalny supporters to dream of a political future for her, even before the opponent and anti-corruption activist was behind bars. “We must unite to hit Putin, his friends, the thugs with epaulets, the courtiers and the murderers who want to paralyze our country,” he declared.
The day Navalni’s death was announced, Yulia Navalnaya tearfully called for Vladimir Putin to be “punished.”
Navalny’s widow held a meeting with EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels
The EU foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, incorporated this Monday as a guest Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, who recently died in a Russian prison in the Arctic. At the end of that closed-door meeting, The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, assured that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will be held accountable for Navalni’s death.
“Vladimir Putin and his regime will be held accountable for the death of Alexei Navalny,” Borrell assured in a message on the X network.
“As Yulia said, Putin is not Russia, and Russia is not Putin”Borrell noted in his message. According to a European diplomat, upon entering the meeting venue the ministers gave Navalnaya a standing ovation.
Who was Navalni and why was he in jail?
Navalny was the Kremlin’s most prominent opponent and had become very popular for his denunciations of alleged cases of corruption under Putin’s government. In 2020, Navalnaya arranged for her husband, who was in a coma in Siberia due to poisoning, to leave Russia. She was also at her side when she returned to Russia from Germany, before he was detained.
Navalny, convicted of “extremism”, He was serving a 19-year sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony after trials that, according to many voices, were politically motivated.
For now, Putin did not speak publicly about Navalni’s death. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov on Friday accused Western leaders of having “absolutely unacceptable” and “hysterical” reactions to Navalny’s death, which caused consternation around the world.
The investigation into the death of Alexei Navalni
The investigation into the death of Alexei Navalny “is still ongoing” and did not reach any conclusion “for the moment,” Peskov declared this Monday, while the relatives of the Russian opponent demand that his remains be handed over to them.
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked on Sunday not to draw hasty conclusions about Navalni’s death.
“I think it’s a matter of common sense (…). “If the death is under suspicion, an investigation must first be carried out to find out what he died of.”, declared Lula in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, where he participated as a guest at the annual summit of the African Union.
However the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, He stressed that Navalnaya’s words before the European ministers “will make them feel the threat that weighs on Russian citizens and on each region” of Europe.
The repression for participating in the tributes to the opposition Nalvani
Human rights groups reported that the Russian police arrested more than 400 people who participated in tributes to the opponent. Only in St. Petersburg, 154 people received short imprisonment orders for participating in tributes to Navalni, according to the details of the rulings published by local judicial services.
In Several European cities held demonstrations in tribute to the Russian opponent. In Germany, protesters laid flowers and candles at a vigil outside the Russian embassy in Berlin.
Source: Ambito
