Navalny’s widow Yulia warns funeral ‘may not be peaceful’ before ‘abused body’ of Putin’s enemy is buried tomorrow
THE grieving widow of Alexei Navalny has warned that his funeral may not be a peaceful event as police could arrest those attending to pay their respects.
The European Parliament was strongly criticized Julia Navalnaya also claimed that her late husband’s body was abused after his death in the hellish Polar Wolf prison.
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The brave opposition leader’s funeral will take place in Moscow’s Maryino district on Friday after several venues refused to hold the service, his spokesman said.
Speaking to lawmakers, Yulia labeled Vladimir Putin a “monster” and expressed her concerns about her husband’s funeral.
She said: “I’m not sure yet if it will be peaceful or if the police will arrest those who come to say goodbye to my husband.”
Russians have been warned not to use the funeral to protest, with Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov warning of “legal and law enforcement consequences”.
The vocal Putin critic died suddenly in prison earlier this month while serving a 19-year prison sentence on extremism charges, with officials insisting he died of “natural causes”.
But there has been speculation about the cause of death, with many Western leaders pointing the finger at the Russian despot.
In her fiery speech, Yulia accused Putin of killing Navalny in the Arctic prison, adding: “Alexei was tortured for three years.
‘He was starved in a small stone cell, cut off from the outside world and given no visitors, phone calls or even letters.
“And then they killed him. Even after that, they abused his body.”
She added: “Putin is the leader of an organized criminal gang. You are not dealing with a politician, but with a bloody monster.”
The director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, said the funeral was initially planned for Thursday – the day of Putin’s annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly – but that no venue would want to hold the funeral then.
“The real reason is clear. The Kremlin understands that no one will need Putin and his message on the day we say goodbye to Alexei,” Zhdanov wrote on Telegram.
Navalny’s spokesman Kir Yarmysh urged his supporters to arrive “in advance” to pay their respects.
Meanwhile, the time had finally come for Navalny’s grieving mother was allowed to see her son’s body last week – six days after his death the IK-3 Arctic jail colony.
The grieving mother Lyudmila had asked to see Alexei’s body claimed that Russian officials were trying to blackmail herand threatened to do “something” to the corpse.
Mystery surrounds the death of the Putin critic, amid widespread speculation that he was murdered.
The body was said to be Navalny’s found under the bruises,
Last week it was claimed he had been killed with one blow to the heart after spending hours in freezing temperatures.
The brutal method was once a “hallmark of the KGB,” according to its founder human rights group Gulagu.net.
But earlier this week the head of… Ukraine“The GUR’s formidable military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, he claimed died of a blood clot.
He said: ‘I may disappoint you, but what we know is that he really died of a blood clot.
“And this is more or less confirmed.
“This was not taken from the internet, but unfortunately a natural product [death].”
It comes as Navalny was ready to be released through a prisoner exchange before his death it was claimed.
Senior Navalny assistant Maria Pevchik Putin – who behaved like a ‘crazy mafioso’ – said that he could not bear to see his arch-enemy Navalny remain free even if he lived in exile.
She said: “In early February, Putin was offered to kill the FSB assassin, Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a prison sentence for murder in Berlinfor two American citizens – and Alexei Navalny.
“I received confirmation on the evening of February 15 that the negotiations were in the final phase. On February 16, Alexei was murdered.”
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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 ‘The Arctic wolf colony