After the death of Kremlin enemy Alexei Navalny in the ‘Polar Wolf’ prison camp in Russia’s far north, his wife published the first photo together with their grieving daughter Darya. Meanwhile, former head of state Dmitry Medvedev insinuates that the widow is not actually depressed at all.
“My sweet little girl. I flew to you to hug you and support you, but you sit there and support me,” Yulia Navalnaya wrote in a post on Instagram on Thursday.
“You are so strong, so brave and steadfast. We can handle anything, my heart. It’s good that you are by my side. I love you.” Navalny, who in addition to 23-year-old Darya, also has a 15-year-old son, died on Friday in a prison camp in the Arctic.
In the past, Darya Navalnaya had repeatedly made political demands for the release of her imprisoned father and also made speeches in his honor at awards ceremonies. She studies at Stanford University in the US.
Navalnaya wants to continue her husband’s work
Navalny’s widow did not immediately travel to see the children on Friday, but initially blamed Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin for her husband’s fate in front of the world at the Munich Security Conference.
On Monday she was a guest in Brussels at the meeting of EU foreign ministers and also published a video declaring war on Putin. She wants to continue her husband’s work. Alexei Navalny, for example, denounced corruption in the Russian power apparatus and publicly described Putin as a murderer.
Defamation of the Kremlin
Meanwhile, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev verbally attacked the dead man and his widow in an interview he published on his Telegram channel. He initially explained that he could not say anything good about Navalny, before criticizing Navalnaya. “Look at the smiling, happy face of the Navalny widow: it seems as if she has been waiting all these years to start her political career,” he claimed, despite the many photos showing Navalnajas’ sadness. Navalny’s team responded to Medvedev’s smear with the comment: “Scumbag. Bad bastard.”
According to authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in the prison camp with the unofficial name ‘Arctic Wolf’ in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal. The politician, weakened by a poison attack in 2020 and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison and died despite attempts to revive him. He was 47 years old at the time of his death. The cause of death is unclear.
Source: Krone
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