Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya on charges of extremism, according to state media.
The charges brought against Yulia Navalnaya in absentia (as she lives in Germany) are based upon her supposed participation in an extremist society.
Navalny was Russia’s most significant opposition leader of the past decade. He died in February in an Arctic Circle jail, serving 19 years on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.
Responding to her arrest warrant, Yulia Navalnaya posted on X: “When you write about this, please do not forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.
“His place is in prison, and not somewhere in The Hague, in a cosy cell with a TV, but in Russia – in the same colony and the same two-by-three-metre cell in which he killed Alexei.”
The Moscow court ruled that Navalnaya should be remanded in custody and she was declared wanted.
This means that she would face arrest if she set foot in Russia – which she is unlikely to do in the near future, as she was unable to attend her husband’s funeral.
She has since met a number of Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden.
This month, she was elected to chair the US-based Human Rights Foundation – a non-profit organisation working to promote and protect human rights across the world, and has pledged to continue her husband’s work.
Alexei’s posthumous memoir will be published in October.
