Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Alexei Navalny, has always kept a low profile, insisting that her main role was as a wife and mother, not a politician. After her husband’s death on Friday, however, appealed for justice at the Munich Security Conference. Navalny’s widow, now he is an important figure in Russia’s oppositionperhaps by default.
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Despite her key role in the past, Navalny has always been a staunch supporter of her husband and was instrumental in his removal from Russia for emergency treatment when he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in 2020. She has been described as the “First Lady” of the Russian opposition.
Alexei Navalny has said in the past that he could not continue his increasingly difficult and one-sided fight against the Kremlin without her. Their public love story and family life (they have two children) have inspired their supporters.
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Julia was born in Moscow in 1976, the daughter of the distinguished scientist Boris Ambrosimov.
Graduated in economics, had a career in the banking industry, but she quit her job to raise her two children when Alexei became known as an opposition politician. They met on holiday in Turkey in 1998 and married two years later. At that time, the future and the fame that her husband would acquire were not yet visible. “I didn’t marry a promising lawyer or an opposition leader. I married a young man named Alexey. he told Russian weekly Sabesednik in 2020.
«By killing Alexei, Putin took half of my life, half of my heart and half of my soul.” is the heartbreaking message of Navalny’s widow. However, as she clarifies, “whatever Putin took from me by killing my husband, I still have the other half of me that tells me I have no right to take it back».
Yulia Navalnaya in the same video promises to continue Alexei Navalny’s work from where he left off until the achievement of the ultimate goal, which is a “free Russia”. Navalnaya met with the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, on Monday 19/2/2024 in Brussels. She looks absolutely determined to go all the way. Already claims to have all the evidence that Alexei was the victim of murder.
“Putin killed half of me, half of my heart and half of my soul.”
Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has vowed to continue her husband’s work — and expose the circumstances of his death. pic.twitter.com/xTnCDbnFpY
— DW News (@dwnews) February 20, 2024
It seems that Yulia shared Alexei’s politics early on. In the 2000s, in fact, they were both members of the liberal Yabloko party, but she herself, until her husband’s poisoning in 2020, made few public appearances or speeches.
When her husband fell ill in the Siberian city of Omsk in August of that year, she wrote directly to President Putin, asking him to be released for treatment in Germany. “Every moment we were there, I thought I had to get him out.”he told Russian documentarian Yuri Dutt.
Navalny managed to flee Russia with the help of a German-based charity. Yulia returned with him to Moscow several months later after his treatment and saw him promptly arrested. He spent the rest of his life behind bars, the BBC reports.
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