Navalny’s widow wants to run for office in Russia

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Lerato Khumalo

Alexei Navalny’s widow wants to overthrow Putin with all her might. When he is no longer in power, she wants to stand for election in Russia.

The widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny wants to return to Russia and take part in elections there as a “candidate” when President Vladimir Putin is no longer in power. “I want to live in Russia,” Yulia Navalnaya told the British broadcaster BBC in an interview published on Monday. “I was born in Moscow, our children were born in Moscow,” she continued.

“Of course it’s not possible as long as Putin is in power, but I hope that one day this regime will fall and I can come back,” Navalnaya said. “When I return to Russia, I will take part in the elections as a candidate.” Putin is her “political opponent” and she will try and do “everything to bring his regime down as quickly as possible.”

Navalny was Putin’s most prominent critic. He died in February under unclear circumstances in a prison camp in the Arctic. Navalnaya has announced that she will continue her husband’s work.

She now described the international community’s reaction to her husband’s death as a “joke”. Navalnaya called on the international community to be “a little less afraid” of Putin. Russia placed Navalnaya, who has lived in Germany for several years, on a list of “terrorists” and “extremists” in July.

Navalny’s posthumously compiled memoirs, “Patriot,” will be published on Tuesday. Among other things, they describe the poison attack carried out on him in 2020, after which he was treated in Germany for months before returning to Russia.