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Navalny's widow Yulia calls on Russians to fight Putin for freedom
Reuters ^ | February 19, 2024 | Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn

Posted on 02/19/2024 7:51:56 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said on Monday that she would press on with her husband's fight for a free Russia and called on supporters to battle President Vladimir Putin with greater fury than ever.

Navalny's death robs Russia's disparate opposition of its most charismatic and courageous leader as Putin prepares for an election that will keep him in power until at least 2030.

In a nine-minute video message laced with rage, Navalnaya, 47, said Putin had killed her husband and in doing so had robbed her of a husband and her two children of a father.

But she said the only answer to such a crime was to continue her late husband's fight for a free and prosperous Russia. Russians, she said, wanted to live differently, even if there appeared little hope.

"I want to live in a free Russia, I want to build a free Russia," Navalnaya said in the video message entitled "I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny".

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: assassination; freedom; navalny; putin
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Meanwhile, Putin had his FSB and police goons out and about attacking Navalny supporters and tearing down memorials to him.

In pictures: Hundreds detained at memorials for Navalny in Russia

‘We Have Been Robbed of Hope’: Russians Lay Flowers at Monuments, Embassies for Navalny

Growing memorial for Alexei Navalny outside Russian Consulate on Upper East Side

Tributes to Alexey Navalny removed from Russian cities after his reported death


1 posted on 02/19/2024 7:51:56 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

This poor lady is not going to like falling out of a tall building.


2 posted on 02/19/2024 8:00:06 AM PST by ryderann
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To: Timber Rattler

Coming to a Democracy near you.


3 posted on 02/19/2024 8:03:09 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Reuters propaganda.

I thought Deep State Contractors have the day off on federal holidays. Getting double pay?


4 posted on 02/19/2024 8:03:25 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Timber Rattler

Ask yourself who benefits from his death. Certainly not Putin or Russia.


5 posted on 02/19/2024 8:06:49 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Timber Rattler
Putin is like Stalin.

Stalin never broke. So Putin is not going to break.

6 posted on 02/19/2024 8:08:57 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: McGruff

I’m curious, how thick is the tinfoil you are wearing on your head?🙄


7 posted on 02/19/2024 8:11:10 AM PST by Salohcin
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To: Timber Rattler

I have some advice for Yulia. If you want prosperity and freedom, do not hook up your thinking to the west right now. They are removing our freedom, installing obscenity, throwing innocent people in jail, some for long periods with no trial, confiscating bank accounts, destroying our food supply, poisoning us with vaccines. I could name more lady.

Is this what you want Yulia? Do you think this is freedom?


8 posted on 02/19/2024 8:13:17 AM PST by dforest
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Navalny’s death robs Russia’s disparate opposition of its most charismatic and courageous leader as Putin prepares for an election that will keep him in power until at least 2030.
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This guy was a nobody in Russia. He was a leader of 30 meaningless guys scattered across the 11 time zones of the country. Even they probably would not recognize him on a street.

Just go look at the Wiki for the upcoming election. The candidates who filed for the presidency who actually have a following and a party are the ones who represent an opposition. Not this non-entity.


9 posted on 02/19/2024 8:14:17 AM PST by Owen (.)
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To: McGruff

Always covering for Putin

some things never change


10 posted on 02/19/2024 8:14:42 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: McGruff
Certainly not Putin or Russia.

So why then are Navalny's mourners being openly attacked and his memorials trashed by Putin's goons?

11 posted on 02/19/2024 8:15:27 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Timber Rattler

“If a tree falls in the forest….”
LOL!😂 🤡


12 posted on 02/19/2024 8:15:45 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: Timber Rattler
Dung Beetle Zeepers

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To be added to the zeeper follies pinglist, ping me bro... 
we need laughter!


13 posted on 02/19/2024 8:18:39 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Owen
This guy was a nobody in Russia.

Think so?

Just go look at the Wiki for the upcoming election. The candidates who filed for the presidency who actually have a following and a party are the ones who represent an opposition.

Wiki, eh? Well that's easy when opposition candidates generally get "disqualified" for one bogus reason or another, get arrested and imprisoned, or else killed.

Not this non-entity.

Because Putin first tried to poison him to death, and then locked him up an arctic prison and threw away the key?

14 posted on 02/19/2024 8:20:59 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You admire Comrade Stalin, don’t you?


15 posted on 02/19/2024 8:21:24 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Owen

“The candidates who filed for the presidency who actually have a following and a party are the ones who represent an opposition. Not this non-entity.”

He became an NPC when he chose the wrong side of the Ukraine War, similar to siding with Japan after Pearl Harbor.


16 posted on 02/19/2024 8:23:43 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: McGruff

The Western intelligence services have themselves a grieving widow as their new opposition leader. Hubby served his usefulness and was not getting out of jail anytime soon. It can be fatal to simply be of no further use…alive…to the agencies trying to set up and grow a Russian opposition vs a leader with an 80% approval rating, the nazi salute throwing supporters at Navalny’s political rallies having failed to impress the Russian public.

According to some reports…luckily Mrs N. was able to visit Navalny 2 days before he died and unobstructed by Putin, then fly to Munich in time to be there at the Security Conference to receive condolences for the death announcement and start her new campaign.

Whatever she delivered to her husband’s prison….maybe brought him …peace.


17 posted on 02/19/2024 8:24:01 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Timber Rattler
Russians love their dictators:

"According to the Russian non-governmental organization Levada Center, about 85% of the Russian population approved of Putin in the beginning of 2023, the highest in nearly 8 years."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Vladimir_Putin

18 posted on 02/19/2024 8:24:12 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: Timber Rattler

At least he made history as yet another “novichok survivor”, eh?
Not such a dreaded bio weapon after all.
No comment from the Skripals


19 posted on 02/19/2024 8:26:26 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Good for them…we despise ours. At least, most of us do.


20 posted on 02/19/2024 8:29:01 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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