Yulia Navalnaya posted a video on her dead husband's social media outlets saying Putin "killed the father of my children".
to cover-up his alleged killing and referred to his alleged earlier poisoning with a Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent.Yulia Navalnaya posted a video on her dead husband's social media outlets saying Putin "killed the father of my children".
He had been jailed since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from poisoning with a Novichok-type nerve agent that he blamed on the Kremlin. He received three prison terms since his arrest, on a number of charges he has rejected as politically motivated. "They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give it to his mother and lying miserably while waiting for the trace of another Putin's Novichok to disappear," Navalnaya said, in a video posted on her husband's social media accounts. She urged the Russians to rally behind her "to share not only the grief and endless pain that has enveloped and gripped us, but also my rage.""I address you with the words of Alexei, in which I really believe: it's not a shame to do little, it's a shame to do nothing. It's a shame to let yourself be intimidated." The Kremlin has said an investigation into the circumstances around Navalny's death is "under way", and the results are currently "unknown". Navalnaya urged all those who mourn Navalny to unite to fulfil his dream of a "beautiful Russia of the future" so that "the unimaginable sacrifice" he made wasn't in vain."Stronger, more fiercely and valiantly than we did before. We all need to get together in one strong fist and strike that mad regime, Putin, his cronies, bandits in epaulets, thieves and killers who mutilated our country." Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said that the Investigative Committee, the country's top criminal investigation agency, informed Lyudmila Navalnaya that the cause of her son's death remained unknown and that the official probe had been extended."They lie, buy time for themselves and do not even hide it," Yarmysh posted on X, formerly Twitter. Many world leaders blamed President Vladimir Putin and his government for Navalny's death Friday at age 47. Navalny's team said he was "murdered" and charged that officials' refusal to hand over his body was part of a cover-up. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed what he described as "boorish" and "inadmissible" statements by Western leaders who held Putin responsible for Navalny's death. "Those statements can't do any harm to the head of our state, but they certainly aren't becoming for those who make them," Peskov said in a call with reporters. Yarmysh said that Navalny's 69-year-old mother and his lawyers were not allowed into the morgue in Salekhard on Monday morning. The staff didn't answer when they asked if the body was there, Yarmysh said. Police officers watch as a woman cries as she pays tribute to Alexei Navalny at the monument where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established in St Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, February 18, 2024. Asked when Navalny's body could be handed over to his family, Peskov responded that the Kremlin was not involved in those proceedings, adding that the official probe was continuing in line with the law."It's clear what they are doing now — covering up the traces of their crime," he wrote on Monday. Navalny's death has deprived the Russian opposition of its most well-known and inspiring politician less than a month before an election that is all but certain to give Putin another six years in power. It dealt a devastating blow to many Russians, who had seen Navalny as a hope for political change following his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin. Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, addresses a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, February 19, 2024. as they streamed to ad-hoc memorials and monuments to victims of political repression with flowers and candles to pay tribute to Navalny, according to OVD-Info, a group that monitors political arrests. The US and British ambassadors also mourned Navalny's death at a memorial in Moscow. Authorities cordoned off some of the memorials across the country and were removing flowers at night, but they kept appearing. More than 50,000 people have submitted requests to the Russian government asking for Navalny's remains to be handed over to his relatives, OVD-Info said. Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service reported that Navalny felt sick after a walk on Friday and became unconscious at the penal colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1900 kilometres north-east of Moscow. An ambulance arrived, but he couldn't be revived, the service said, adding that the cause of death is still "being established". Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, left, walks with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell prior to a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, February 19, 2024. Some Russian media claimed that Navalny's body bore bruises, possibly caused by medics' attempts to resuscitate him. The reports couldn't be independently confirmed. After the last verdict that handed him a 19-year term, Navalny said he understood he was "serving a life sentence, which is measured by the length of my life or the length of life of this regime". His widow was in Brussels on Monday and is expected to meet with European Union foreign ministers and other EU officials. "By killing Alexei, Putin killed half of me, half of my heart and half of my soul," Navalnaya said in a video statement. "But I still have the other half, and it tells me that I have no right to give up. I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny."
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