Yulia Navalnaïa wants to return to Russia. The widow of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny and herself an opponent of the Putin regime, declared Monday October 21 in an interview with the BBC, that she would come home and “would take part in the elections as a candidate” yes « régime » of Vladimir Putin fell.
“I will come back”
On the eve of the posthumous release of Alexeï Navalny’s memoirs, the 48-year-old opponent also denounced as a « affront » the weakness of international reactions to the announcement of the death of her husband in February 2024 in an Arctic prison.
Vladimir Putin is “my political opponent, and I am doing and will do everything in my power to bring down his regime as soon as possible,” she said in this interview. “I want to live in Russia. I was born in Moscow, so were my children… It’s very important for me to come back. “It’s impossible of course as long as Putin is in power, but I hope that one day his regime will fall and I will return,” she declared.
“If I return to Russia, I will participate in the elections as a candidate,” followed by Ioulia Navalnaïa.
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Call to directly sanction Vladimir Putin
According to her, the Russian president must “answer for death and murder” of her husband, and his anti-corruption foundation has “evidence” which will be revealed once “the complete picture” reconstituted. “I think there was no (international) response to Alexei’s death. Certainly, there were sanctions against certain guards at his Arctic prison, but I find it a kind of affront to his memory.she lamented.
She called for direct sanctions “Putin, his entourage” and the existing Russian government.
An arrest warrant issued against him
On Sunday, Yulia Navalnaïa said she wished, in the Sunday Timesthe fall of Vladimir Putin, hoping that he “goes from a kind of Russian tsar to an ordinary prisoner”, locked up like her husband in very trying conditions.
After the death of her husband, Yulia Navalnaïa was included in the register of “terrorists and extremists” in Russia in July, shortly after an arrest warrant was issued against him for “participation in an extremist group”. She lives outside the country, vowing to keep her late husband’s cause alive.
