EXCLUSIVE – The wife of the opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died in prison, gave us an interview on the occasion of the release of his detention diary Patriot published by Robert Laffont.
LE FIGARO. – Your husband’s autobiography comes out this October 22, a world event. Reading it, we are struck on the one hand by the courage and unfailing optimism that he displayed during this journey through hell, and on the other by the appalling horror of the Russian political and prison system, by the cruelty of the power machine, which he describes with invigorating irony.
Ioulia NAVALNAÏA. – Thank you, I myself am inspired and struck.
How did these memoirs come to be and were they written? How was he able to get texts through almost to the end, when he was given less and less time for that?
Unfortunately, he was not able to write to the end. At first it was easier, then it became more and more complicated. It all started after his poisoning when we were in Germany. (Yulia alludes to the spectacular poisoning ofAlexei Navalny in Omsk, where an “FSB team introduced the nerve agent Novichok…
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