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"Yulia Navalnaya has published a video address in which she vowed to continue
her late husband’s political work and called on Russians to rally around her as
Alexei Navalny’s family were told they would not get access to his body for
another two weeks.
“I will continue Alexei Navalny’s work … I want to live in a free Russia, I
want to build a free Russia,” Navalnaya said in a powerful nine-minute video
published on social media.
“I call on you to stand with me. To share not only grief and endless pain … I
ask you to share with me the rage. The fury, anger, hatred for those who dare
to kill our future.”
Navalnaya, 47, accused the Russian authorities of murdering her husband, hiding
his body and waiting for traces of the nerve agent novichok to disappear from
it.
Hours after Navalnaya’s comments, Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said
Russian investigators told his family and his lawyers that they would not yet
release his body.
“Some kind of ‘chemical examination’ will be conducted with it for another 14
days,” Yarmysh said.
“I shouldn’t have been in this place, I shouldn’t be recording this video.
There should have been another person in my place. But that person was killed
by Vladimir Putin,” Navalnaya said, her voice occasionally trembling with
emotion.
She said she knew “why exactly Putin killed Alexei three days ago”. “And we
will tell you that soon,” she added.
Navalnaya said that by “killing Alexei”, Putin had “killed half of me, half of
my heart and my soul”.
“But I still have the other half, and it tells me that I have no right to give
up,” added Navalnaya, who last saw her husband two years ago."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
