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“Give us back my husband’s body. We want to hold a funeral service and bury him in the ground in a humane way, as is customary in Orthodox Christianity,” Yulia Navalnaya said in a six-minute YouTube video on Saturday.
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Widow makes serious allegations against Putin
She also makes serious allegations against Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom numerous Western politicians have blamed for Navalny’s death. Putin is personally responsible for the whereabouts of the body, says Navalnaya. He tortures Navalny in death as he did during his lifetime. “No true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing now with Alexei’s body.” Her husband, on the other hand, was a devout Christian who went to church and observed Lent even in prison. Navalny’s political commitment was inspired by Christian values.
“Give grandma my father’s body,” wrote Navalny’s daughter Darja on the social network X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. Her grandmother Lyudmila Navalnaya said in a video on Thursday that Putin’s authorities wanted to force her to attend a secret funeral and threatened to harm the body. Navalny’s widow accused Putin of continuing to torment Alexei’s mother and wanting to break her.
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“Driven by hatred and desire for revenge”
Although Putin poses in Russian Orthodox churches with a candle in his hand and kisses icons, he is actually driven by hatred and a desire for revenge, said Yulia Navalnaya. “No, it’s not even hate, it’s satanism, paganism.” But faith is about goodness, about mercy, about redemption. “And no true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing now with dead Alexei.”
At the same time, the 47-year-old condemned Putin’s war against Ukraine, for which he also used the church. The Kremlin chief is leading the campaign against the West by relying on traditional values. “But you just kill, bomb sleeping civilians at night with rockets that were blessed in the church,” Navalnaya said. The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, is a confidant of Putin and an ardent supporter of the war against Ukraine. Clergy repeatedly publicly bless rockets.
According to authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in the penal camp with the unofficial name “Arctic Wolf” in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal. The circumstances of his death are not clear. The politician, weakened by the poison attack and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison yard and died despite attempts to resuscitate him. According to Navalny’s team, the death certificate mentions “natural” causes.
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