……Navalny’s wife calls on international community to fight against Putin’s “horrific” regime
Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has died, the Russian prison service said.
CNN quotes Navalny’s spokesperson as saying his lawyer is traveling to the Siberian penal colony where Navalny had been serving his sentence. His mother said she had just seen Navalny for a visit this week, and he was “alive, healthy and cheerful.”
Navalny received global attention when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020. The Russian opposition figure was sentenced to 19 years in prison in August. He was already serving sentences for 11 and a half years in a maximum security facility on fraud and other charges he denied.
World leaders have reacted with shock and sadness to Navalny’s death, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying, “Russia is responsible for this.”
Meanwhile, wife of the celebrated opposition leader’s wife Yulia Navalnaya, urged the international community to fight against Putin’s “horrific” regime after her husband’s death on Friday.
She told delegates at the Munich Security Conference in Germany that she does not have confirmation about her husband’s death — only the reports via state media.
“I thought about it quite a while. I thought, ‘Should I stand here before you, or should I go back to my children?’ And then I thought: ‘What would Alexey have done in my place?’ And I’m sure he would have been standing here on this stage,” she said.
“I would like to call upon all the international community – all the people in the world. We should come together, and we should fight against this evil. We should fight this horrific regime in Russia today. This regime, and Vladimir Putin, should be personally held responsible for all the atrocities they have committed in our country.”
Navalnaya received a standing ovation for her address, CNN, reports.
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