Alexei Navalny’s widow has declared that she intends to become Russia’s president when Putin’s reign will be over.
Living in exile, she has not held back in publicly calling Vladimir Putin a thief, a liar, a murderer, a criminal.
She is currently leading the Anti-Corruption Foundation, hounding Putin and accumulating evidence to reveal against him.
She, however, cannot return to Russia so long as the Putin regime is in power. This would lead to immediate arrest on charges of extremism.
Navalnaya has criticised the international community’s response to her husband’s death, calling the sanctions imposed on Russian officials “a joke”.
Meanwhile, she has published Navalny’s memoirs – though they are slightly incomplete, as certain parts were confiscated in prison.
While Alexei was alive, Yulia stood back as a silent supporter. But now, she has come out in his memory on radical terms. And this means announcing her candidacy to govern a very different Russia from the one we’ve come to know under Putin.
In the meantime, she “will do everything to make his regime fall as soon as possible”.
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