Moscow: “I like you,” the widow of Alexei Navalny stated in a put up on social media beside an image of them collectively, two days after President Vladimir Putin’s most outstanding home foe died in a Russian jail.
Yulia Navalnaya’s put up on Instagram, the primary since her husband died, confirmed an image of the 2 collectively, their heads touching as they watched a efficiency.
It introduced a private observe to the loss she expressed extra formally on a public stage simply hours after her husband’s demise was introduced by the Russian jail service.
Navalny, 47, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a stroll on the “Polar Wolf” penal colony within the Arctic the place he was serving a three-decade sentence, the jail service stated. There are nonetheless few particulars of why he died.
On Friday afternoon, Navalnaya appeared earlier than an viewers of leaders, diplomats and different officers on the Munich Safety Convention, saying she had weighed popping out on stage or instantly leaving to be with the couple’s two youngsters, Daria and Zakhar, deciding her husband would need her to talk.
Alexei Navalny, along with his spouse Yulia, proper, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar in Moscow in 2019.Credit score: AP
If the information of his demise was true, Navalnaya, 47, stated, “I would like Putin, his whole entourage, Putin’s mates, his authorities to know that they’ll bear accountability for what they did to our nation, to my household, to my husband”.
Navalny’s final put up on Telegram earlier than he died was a Valentine’s message for his spouse.
“Babe, you and I’ve every little thing like within the track: cities between us, airfield take-off lights, blue blizzards and hundreds of kilometres. However I really feel that you’re there each second, and I like you increasingly.”