Alexei Navalny died on Feb 16 in unclear circumstances. Ottawa: Canada announced new sanctions on Sunday against six Russian officials following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month in an Arctic prison colony. The sanctions target “senior officials and high-ranking employees of Russia’s prosecution, judicial and correctional services,” a statement by Canada’s foreign … Read more
Navalnaya said her husband had been a devout Christian Moscow: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on Saturday demanded that Russian authorities release his body for burial and accused a “demonic” Russian President Vladimir Putin of “torturing” his corpse. In a six-minute video posted on YouTube, Navalnaya accused Putin … Read more
Moscow: A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said Wednesday. Lyudmila Navalnaya has travelled to the remote IK-3 prison where her son died, but since Saturday, when she arrived, … Read more
A trained economist, she gave up her job to raise the couple’s two children. Warsaw, Poland: Stony-faced and resolute, Yulia Navalnaya on Monday picked up the baton from her late husband Alexei with a call to action for Russia’s opposition after years in his shadow. In a dimly lit room, her light blond hair tied … Read more
Vladimir Putin has yet to comment on Alexei Navalny’s death. Alexei Navalny’s mother was told on Saturday that Russia’s most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by “sudden death syndrome” and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said. Navalny, a 47-year-old former … Read more