Vengeful widow Yulia Navalny calls for a day of RAGE during Putin’s elections, telling Russian rebels to flood rigged polls
ALEXEI Navalny’s widow has urged Russians to unleash chaos on election day as Vladimir Putin faces another term in office.
The tyrant is ready to hand him over another six years in power in a mock election next week.
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Navalny‘s vengeful widow Julia has called on supporters to protest the aging dictator, 71, by swarming polling stations.
She has supported an initiative to overload polling stations Russians will vote on March 17.
Bee Navalny’s funeral last weekhuge crowds shouted ‘Russia without Putin‘ as the feared murdered opposition leader was lowered into a grave.
In a video shared on YouTubeYulia said the scale of public support for Navalny since his death on February 16 was proof that his cause lived on.
She said: “When I look at you, I am convinced that everything is not in vain, and this thought gives me strength.
“Now you all know that there are many of us, all who love Alexei and support him, who share his ideas, and as long as we have each other, it is not over yet.”
In one of his last defiant public messages: Navalny called on people to protest against Putin by voting en masse on March 17 at noon local time.
Yulia took up her husband’s call and said: “This is a very simple and safe action, it cannot be banned, and it will help millions of people to see like-minded people and realize that we are not alone.
‘We are surrounded by people who are like that against waragainst corruption and against lawlessness.”
The stakes are high for both the opposition and the Kremlin.
If the ‘Noon against Putin’ move fails, it will be a blow to Yulia’s hopes of taking over her husband’s mantle, even though she lives outside Russia, and shows that opposition to the Kremlin is still alive.
But if people heed the call, it could turn into a large-scale protest across Russia’s eleven time zones and pose a dilemma for authorities, as police would have no clear legal grounds to arrest people queuing. to disperse voices.
Putin has been in power since the last day of 1999 and will take power until 2030.
Two potential challengers who spoke out against the war in Ukraine were disqualified from the election on technical grounds, and none of the three remaining candidates have criticized Putin.
The Kremlin says he will win because he has real support across the country, with opinion polls at around 80 percent.
Two years after the war, Putin’s main opponents are dead, in prison or abroad.
Yulia called the elections “a complete fiction and fake”.
She added: “What to do now? The choice is yours. You can vote for any candidate except Putin.
“You can ruin the ballot paper, you can write ‘Navalny’ on it in big letters.
“And even if you don’t see the point of voting at all, you can just show up at the polling station and then turn around and go home.”
Mourners at Navaly’s funeral last week heard people chanting: “Putin is a murderer”, “We will not forget”, “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Russia without Putin”.
According to one of his allies, more than a thousand people waited near the church to pay their respects to the anti-corruption activist.
His grave has since been overrun with flowers.
Police arrested more than 400 people across the country at memorials and rallies honoring Navalny the day after he died in prison.
After surviving a poisoning attempt in 2020, Navalny served prison terms of more than 30 years on trumped-up charges when he died at age 47.
It is feared the fierce Putin critic was murdered – reportedly with his body found under the bruises.
The Kremlin has portrayed Navalny and his supporters as lawbreakers and tools of the West, acting to destabilize Russia.
It has denied Yulia’s accusations that Putin had him killed.
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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 “defying 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. He reappears weeks later in one of Siberia’s toughest prisons: the ‘Arctic Wolf Colony