Tuesday briefing: Navalny's widow speaks out

Navalny's widow promised to continue his work

In a video released yesterday, Yulia Navalnaya said she would continue her husband's work to challenge President Vladimir Putin's autocratic rule and called on his followers to stand with her.

“I ask you to share my anger,” she told Navalny's followers posted the video on his YouTube feed, “to share my anger, rage and hatred against those who have dared to kill our future.”

She blamed Putin for her husband's death and suggested that Navalny's team investigate the circumstances of his death in prison, which was announced by Russian authorities on Friday.

Analysis: Navalnaya, 47, has long avoided the spotlight. But now she is poised to emerge as the leader of the fractured pro-democracy movement. The dangers and obstacles it faces in its efforts to unite the opposition from outside Russia are significant.

To manhandle: At least 366 people have been arrested in 39 cities in Russia since Navalny was declared dead, according to rights groups. Anton Troianovski, the head of our Moscow bureau, told us that rights groups had said many of those detained were just laying flowers.

“Even to do that is a very dangerous statement in today's Russia,” he said. “And at the same time, there is virtually no reporting on what happened on state television, the main news medium in Russia.”

For more: The Times has obtained a number of letters that Navalny wrote in his final months, revealing his relentlessly active mind, the depth of his determination and his trademark dry humor.

A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said a decision had already been made on the matter, without saying what it was. But two officials said a final decision would be made after the government received recommendations from security forces in the coming days.

The move to further restrict access was promoted in the Israeli cabinet by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right minister of national security, who has long pushed for greater Jewish control over the site. In recent days he had warned that Muslim worshipers could use access to the mosque to show support for Hamas.

Background: The mosque complex is sacred to both Muslims and Jews, who call it the Temple Mount, and is a chronic focal point.

Individual, The International Court of Justice began six days of hearings on the legality of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. She will issue an opinion within a few weeks.

Dozens of people were killed in a gun battle in Papua New Guinea

The death toll from a gunfight that broke out on Sunday between tribal groups in Papua New Guinea's remote highlands stood at 26. Limited water and other resources, as well as disputes over private land, have long fueled tensions. The death toll has risen recently as tribesmen switch from using traditional weapons to high-powered firearms, often brought in from abroad.

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Lives lived: William Beecher, a Times journalist, in 1969 exposed President Richard Nixon's secret bombing campaign on Cambodia during the Vietnam War. He died at the age of 90.

ARTS AND IDEAS

The strange performances of the year

We're in the middle of movie awards season. So Wesley Morris, our critic at large, decided to give out his own awards for categories that don't exist at the Oscars. Among his choices:

Best Acting on a Landline: Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Chris Messina, in 'Air'. The film is set in 1984. Wesley honors the actors who hold the horn at the neck, hold it at a comical distance, shout into it and hug it close.

Best Theft of a Movie: Ryan Gosling, in 'Barbie'. He goes so hard on the joke Ken is supposed to tell about men that the feat is bizarre: strength is weakness, coolness is weakness, knowledge is ignorance, Wesley writes.

Best Gonzo Performance: Emma Stone, in 'Poor Things'. The film – in which Stone plays a quirky reanimated corpse – demands a comedian's sensitivity as her character goes from savant to simple to sophisticated.

Read Wesley's full prize list.

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