Kremlin critics are calling for mass protests at Russian polling stations on the final day of the presidential election.(AFP) Kremlin critics are calling for mass protests at Russian polling stations on Sunday, the final day of a presidential election guaranteed to cement Vladimir Putin’s tough rule. The three-day vote has been accompanied by a spike … Read more
“Good rest. Don’t worry about anything,” writes Oleg Navalny in a message on Instagram, accompanying his message with a photo depicting them hugging. Oleg Navalny said goodbye to his brother “Sleep well, brother, and don’t worry about anything,” he wrote on social networks. Before this, the politician’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, released a farewell post. She … Read more
Alexei Navalny’s widow, who directly blamed Putin for her husband’s death by saying the Russian opposition leader was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, has always kept a low profile, insisting her main role was that of wife and mother and not as a politician. In France, Le Figaro writes: “Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of … Read more
Just a few hours after the announcement of Alexei Navalny’s death, users circulated a photo of his widow posing smiling on a beach next to another man on the Internet, with comments stating or implying that the photo had been taken in recent days and thus accusing her of faking her grief in the public … Read more
In a video posted on YouTube, 69-year-old Lyudmila Navalnaya, standing outside the Arctic Circle’s Polar Wolf Penitentiary Colony, where Navalny died, said: “I am turning to you, Vladimir Putin, because the solution to this problem depends only on from you. Let me see my son at last. I demand that Alexei’s body be released immediately … Read more
Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia must support her husband’s voice, Alexander Litvinenko’s widow said on Saturday. “Yulia Navalnaya did the very right thing,” Marina Litvinenko told Reuters – her husband Alexei was well known in Russia and abroad. It’s important for her to support his voice, but now she herself has become his voice.” Marina Litvinenko’s … Read more