FILE – Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during her press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, April 2, 2019. Russia has put former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on its wanted list, Russian state media reported on Saturday, June 8, 2024, citing the Interior Ministry’s database. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, file) Russia has put former […]
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Yulia Navalnaya collects freedom of speech award, to continue fight
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was presented with the Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award in Berlin on Wednesday. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation was also recognized at the ceremony for its fight against the Russian government’s attempts to crack down on freedom of the press. In her acceptance speech, Navalnaya said the […]
Yulia Navalnaya thanks Russians who came to bid her husband farewell
(Reuters) – The wife of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has thanked the many thousands of Russians who have queued for hours to visit her husband’s grave. “Many people wonder why Alexei fought so hard and never gave up. For your sake. For the beautiful, brave and honest people who now come […]
Arrests possible at Alexei Navalny’s funeral, Yulia Navalnaya says
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, cannot rule out the Russian police arresting mourners at her husband’s funeral on Friday. “I’m not sure yet whether it will be peaceful or whether police will arrest those who have come to say goodbye to my husband,” Navalnaya told the European Parliament in […]
Wife Yulia Navalnaya’s X account briefly suspended as U.S. promises ‘major sanctions’ against Russia
People around the world continue to react in horror to the death of Alexei Navalny, the 47-year-old outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who Kremlin officials say was found dead last week in the remote Arctic prison where he was serving a 30-plus year sentence. Here is the latest on the fallout from his […]
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of dead Putin opponent Alexei Navalny, vows to continue fight
The Feb. 16 death of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, has sparked global controversy. Now his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has vowed to continue the fight for a “free Russia,” encouraging supporters to even more stubbornly oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin. The public figure and former Russian ambassador accused Putin of killing her husband after […]
Yulia Navalnaya, Russia’s steely new opposition politician out to avenge husband’s death
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Before the shock death of her husband Alexei in a grim Arctic prison last week, Yulia Navalnaya had always played down the idea she would one day take over as leader of Russia’s opposition. But on Monday, she vowed to continue his fight. In a video released three days […]
Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny’s wife, says she will take up his fight
Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from The Guardian, the Financial Times, and Novaya Gazeta Europe The News Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said she would carry on her dead husband’s fight against President Vladimir Putin. Navalnaya, described by some as the “First Lady” of Russian opposition, called for supporters to […]
Putin must be held accountable, says Yulia Navalnaya
Alexei Navalny‘s wife, Yulia, has said that if the news of her husband’s death is true, Russian President Vladimir Putin must be brought to justice. She said Mr Putin and his allies “should be held personally responsible for all the atrocities they have committed in Russia”. Yulia Navalnaya also called on the international community to […]
Yulia Laputina tells NV that a military memorial will be built in Hatne near Kyiv, NV exclusive
The National Military Cemetery is set to be constructed in Hatne village, near Kyiv, in late spring, said Yulia Laputina, Ukraine’s Veterans Affairs Minister, in an interview with NV on Jan. 22. “Assuming favorable conditions, the first burials can be held in early autumn of this year,” Laputina said. The law, passed by the Rada in December and signed by President Zelenskyy, aims to simplify the construction initiation process. […]