The widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in Russian custody, is demanding authorities hand over her husband’s body. ‘Give us back my husband’s body. We want to hold a funeral service and bury him in the ground humanely, as is customary in Orthodox Christianity,” Yulia Navalnaya said in a six-minute YouTube video on Saturday.
She also makes serious accusations against Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is blamed for Navalny’s death by numerous Western politicians. Putin is personally responsible for the body’s whereabouts, Navalnaya said.
“No true Christian could do such a thing.”
He tortures Navalny to death, as he did during his life. “No true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing to Alexei’s body.” Her husband, on the other hand, was a devout Christian who went to church and observed Lent even in prison. Navalny’s political engagement was inspired by Christian values.
Here you can see Julia Navalnaya’s video message:
“Give grandma my father’s body,” Navalny’s daughter Darya wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. Her grandmother Lyudmila Navalnaya said in a video on Thursday that Putin’s authorities wanted to force her to attend a secret funeral and threatened to harm the body. Navalny’s widow accused Putin of continuing to torment Alexei’s mother and trying to break her.
‘Putin instrumentalizes the church’
Although Putin poses in Russian Orthodox churches with a candle in his hand and kisses icons, he is actually driven by hatred and revenge, according to Yulia Navalnaya. ‘No, it’s not even hatred, it’s satanism, paganism.’ But faith is about goodness, about mercy, about salvation. “And no true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing to the dead Alexei.”
At the same time, the 47-year-old condemned Putin’s war against Ukraine, for which he also used the church. The head of the Kremlin is leading the campaign against the West by relying on traditional values. “But you just kill and bomb sleeping civilians at night with rockets blessed in the church,” Navalnaya said. The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, is a confidant of Putin and a staunch supporter of the war against Ukraine. Clerics repeatedly publicly bless rockets.
The cause of death remains a mystery
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 circumstances of his death are not clear. The politician, weakened by the poison attack and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison grounds and died despite attempts to revive him. According to Navalny’s team, the death certificate mentions “natural” causes.
Source: Krone
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