Alexei Navalny's Tragic Final Message to Wife Yulia Navalnaya from Behind Bars for Valentine's Day Before 'Death in Prison'
ALEXEI Navalny told his wife: “I love you more and more” in a tragic final Valentine's Day message sent from behind bars.
The jailed Russian opposition leader, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putinhas died in a hellish Siberian prisonRussia claimed today.
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Jail officials claimed the dissident, 47, collapsed brutal Polar Wolf prison and could not be resuscitated.
Navalnyare known for campaigns against official corruption and for leading large protests against the Kremlin, was perhaps Putin's greatest enemy.
He made his last declaration of love to his wife Julia Navalnaya47, op Valentine's Day.
The charismatic politician said: “Darling, with you everything is like a song: between us there are cities, the starting lights of airports, blue snowstorms and thousands of kilometers.
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“But I feel you close every second, and I love you more and more.”
Yulia has been described as the “First Lady” of the Russian opposition.
She met Navalny, a lawyer from Moscow, in the summer from 1998 during a holiday in Turkey.
The couple married two years later and had two children: a daughter Daria, 23, and a son Zakhar, 15.
Before Yulia became her husband's personal assistant and housewife for their family, she was an economist and worked for numerous Russian banks.
She remained a loyal and constant supporter of her husband through his many bouts of illness healthuntil his “death”.
In 2020, while her husband fought for his life in a Berlin hospitalshe regularly informed journalists about his condition.
Some of the first words he spoke when he woke up from his coma after being poisoned with Novichok were: “Yulia, you saved me.”
Navalny had been jailed for 19 years to avoid becoming president and was walking on prison grounds when he mysteriously collapsed, prison officials said.
A statement read: “On February 16, 2024, in Penal Colony No. 3, convict Navalny AA felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness.”
The officials further claimed that medics were sent to Navalny's aid but were unable to revive him.
Conflicting reports claim he was being held in solitary confinement when he died, the newspaper said Human rights Foundation.
His reported death comes after him suffered a serious health incident in Decemberat which point his supporters expressed fear for his life.
A spokesman for the Kremlin critic said at the time that he had not been fed for days and had a “feeling of hunger” in his cell.
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The life of Alexei Navalny
Putin's best-known opponent Alexei Navalny, 47, has died in prison.
Here's a timeline that took the leader of the opposition from the face of freedom in Russia and the Kremlin's greatest enemy to a hellish Siberian prison and to an early grave.
June 4, 1976 — Navalny was born in a western part of the Moscow region.
1997 — Graduated from Russia's RUDN University, where he studied law.
2004 – Forms a movement against rampant overdevelopment in Moscow.
2008 — Gains fame for exposing corruption in state-owned enterprises
December 2011 – Participates in mass protests sparked by reports of widespread manipulation of Russia's elections, and is arrested and jailed for 15 days for “challenging a government official.”
March 2012 – More mass protests break out and Navalny accuses key Kremlin henchmen of corruption
July 2012 — Russia's Investigative Committee accuses Navalny of embezzlement. He rejects the claims, saying they are politically motivated
2013 — Navalny wants to become mayor of Moscow
July 2013 – A court in Kirov convicts Navalny of embezzlement in the Kirovles case and sentences him to five years in prison. He appeals and is allowed to continue his campaign
September 2013 — Official results show Navalny finishing second in the mayoral race
February 2014 — Navalny is placed under house arrest
December 2014 — Navalny and his brother Oleg are found guilty of fraud
February 2016 — The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia violated Navalny's right to a fair trial
November 2016 — Russia's Supreme Court overturned Navalny's sentence
December 2016 — Navalny announces he will run in the 2018 Russian presidential elections
February 2017 — The Kirov court retrials Navalny and upholds his five-year suspended sentence from 2013
April 2017 – Survives an assassination attempt that he blames on the Kremlin
December 2017 — Russia's Central Electoral Commission prevents him from running for president
August 2020 – Navalny falls into a coma during a flight and his team suspects he has been poisoned. German authorities confirm he was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent.
January 2021 — After five months in Germany, Navalny is arrested upon his return to Russia
February 2021 — A Moscow court orders Navalny to serve a 2.5-year prison sentence
June 2021 — A Moscow court shuts down Navalny's Foundation for the Fight against Corruption and his extensive political network
February 2022 – Russia invades Ukraine
March 2022 — Navalny is sentenced to an additional nine years in prison for embezzlement and contempt of court
2023 – More than 400 Russian doctors sign an open letter to Putin urging an end to what she calls abuse of Navalny, after reports that he was denied basic medication and suffered slow poisoning
April 2023 – Navalny says from prison he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life
August 2023 – A court in Russia extends Navalny's prison sentence by 19 years
December 2023 – He disappears from his prison because his team is afraid he will be killed. Weeks later he appears again in one of the toughest prisons in Siberia: the 'Arctic Wolf Colony