Navalny’s widow
Yulia Navalnaya believes offers of talks to Putin are unnecessary
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny.
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Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny’s widow, waves away. While German politicians are still hoping for negotiations with Putin, she is certain: “He doesn’t care at all.”
Yulia Navalnaya has declared possible negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to be unnecessary. “There is no need to discuss with him (…). We have to fight him so that one day justice will prevail again,” said the exiled widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Thursday evening before the French Constitutional Council in Paris.
“The West doesn’t understand that Putin doesn’t wait for someone to come and talk to him. (…) He doesn’t care at all,” she added. Navalnaya, who was invited by the Constitutional Council to speak about democracy and the rule of law, reiterated her intention to continue her husband’s fight. Navalny was one of Putin’s harshest critics. He died in February under unclear circumstances in a prison camp in the Arctic.
Yulia Navalnaya: “Don’t give up!”
It is extremely important “not to give up and not to be afraid of this regime,” Navalnaya added. She was placed on a list of “terrorists and extremists” in Russia in July. Shortly before, a Russian court had issued an arrest warrant against her for “participation in an extremist organization.” It was said that she had evaded preliminary investigations and was therefore put on the wanted list.
The organizations founded by Navalny have been banned in Russia since 2021 and classified as “extremist”. Several of his employees have now been sentenced to prison terms.