Moscow: “I love you,” Alexei Navalny's widow said in a social media post alongside a photo of them together, two days after President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic opponent died in a Russian prison.
Yulia Navalnaya's Instagram post, the first since her husband's death, showed a photo of them together, their heads touching while watching a show.
Alexei Navalny with his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar in Moscow in 2019.credit: AP
It brought a personal note of loss, which she expressed more formally on a public stage just hours after the Russian prison service announced her husband's death.
The prison administration said that Navalny (47 years old) lost consciousness and died on Friday after walking into the “Polar Wolf” penal colony in the Arctic, where he was serving a three-decade prison sentence. There are still few details about the cause of his death.
On Friday afternoon, Navalnaya appeared before an audience of leaders, diplomats and other officials at the Munich Security Conference, saying she had considered walking out on stage or leaving immediately to be with the couple's two children, Daria and Zakhar, and decided her husband wanted that. She has to speak.
If the news of his death is true, Navalnaya (47 years old) said: “I want Putin, his entire entourage, Putin’s friends, and his government to know that they will take responsibility for what they did to our country, my family, and my country.” Husband”.
Navalny's last post on Telegram before his death was a Valentine's Day message to his wife.
“Darling, you and I have everything like in the song: cities between us, airport take-off lights, blue snowstorms, and thousands of kilometers away. But I feel you there every second, and I love you more and more.”
