The police presence appeared heavy for the service. Some attendees shouted, “No to war” & “#Russia will be free” as they marched to the cemetery where the opposition leader was to be buried.
A photograph taken inside the church & shown on #Navalny’s YouTube channel showed him in an open coffin, lying in repose w/flowers over his body. His parents held lit candles. His widow, #YuliaNavalnaya, who has vowed to carry on his #political activities, & his children, Daria & Zakhar, who no longer
live in #Russia, did not appear to be present.
Today, we had a largish raid group of 11+ to take on an #OriginFormePalkia in - it turned out to be a good raid.
Just for fun, my strongest ditto was backing up my mega salamence who was in #1 position. Turns out that the ditto's shapeshift did not cancel out my salamance's mega form which was a happy surprise 😁
It must have been the term she used, "demonic", that finally did it. Truth hurts.
#Navalny’s widow, #YuliaNavalnaya, had earlier demanded the release of his body for burial, accusing Russian President Vladimir #Putin of mocking #OrthodoxChristian values and “torturing” his corpse.
#POTUS Joe #Biden on Fri announced >500
new #sanctions on #Russia & its #war machine in the largest tranche of penalties since Moscow’s invasion of #Ukraine nearly 2 yrs ago.
Biden followed through on a promise to further punish #Putin 1 wk after opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny died in a Siberian prison. The sanctions — as well as those added Fri by the #EU — come 1 day before the 2nd anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The bulk of the #sanctions, to be unveiled later Fri by the #Treasury Dept, were already in the works for the #invasion anniversary, though a few were added this week to target those involved in #Navalny’s death [#murder / #assassination ] at an Arctic penal colony. #Biden met Thurs w/ #YuliaNavalnaya, Navalny’s widow, & daughter in SF & praised her late husband’s bravery.
#POTUS Joe #Biden met w/the widow of #AlexeiNavalny, #YuliaNavalnaya, & their daughter, Dasha, in California on Thurs afternoon, less than a week after her husband died in a Russian prison.
"The President expressed his admiration for Aleksey #Navalny’s extraordinary courage & his legacy of fighting against corruption & for a free & democratic #Russia in which the rule of #law applies equally to everyone," the #WhiteHouse said.
Since musk has deleted your account on xitter (minutes after you vowed to continue your husband's work) I'd like to extend an invitation for you to join Mastodon.
"I shouldn’t have been in this place. I shouldn’t have recorded this video. There should have been another person in my place, but this person was killed by Vladimir Putin. Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband Alexei Navalny. Putin killed the father of my children, took away the most precious thing I had, [my] closest and most beloved person."
"My husband was unbreakable. And that’s exactly why Putin killed him. Shamefully, cowardly, never daring to look him in the eye or just call his name. And just as shamefully and cowardly, they are now hiding his body, not showing it to his mother, not handing it over, and pathetically lying and waiting for traces of yet another Putin ‘Novichok’ [nerve agent] to disappear."
#YuliaNavalnaya, the widow of #AlexeiNavalny, #Putin’s most formidable opponent, vowed on Mon to carry on her husband’s crusade against the Russian regime, striving to build “a free, peaceful, happy Russia, a beautiful #Russia of the future, which my husband dreamed of so much.” #Navalnaya, 47, made her announcement on YouTube, in which she accused Russian authorities of fatally poisoning #Navalny in the Arctic prison where he died suddenly on Fri at age 47.
“#Putin did not only murder the person, #AlexeiNavalny,” she said, clad in black & her voice occasionally trembling during the dramatic video address. “He wanted, along with him, to kill our hope, our freedom, our future.” #Navalnaya also accused the Russian authorities of refusing to hand over #Navalny’s body to his 69-yr-old mother so they could #coverup the cause of death.
“They lie pathetically, & wait for the traces of another #Putin’s #Novichok to disappear there,” said #Navalnaya, referring to the class of nerve agent that international investigators said Russian security agents used in an Aug 2020 attempt to #assassinate her husband.
“My husband could not be broken, & that’s exactly why Putin killed him, in the most cowardly way,” she continued. “He did not have the courage to look him in the eye or even say his name.”
As news of #AlexeiNavalny's death spread, spontaneous memorials took place in several urban areas, with people taken into custody in 36 cities from the border city of #Belgorod to #Vorkuta, an Arctic mining outpost once a centre of the Stalin-era gulag labour camps, to #NizhnyNovgorod, #Krasnodar, #RostovOnDon and #Tver. #Ukraine
#YuliaNavalnaya, the wife of #Kremlin critic #AlexeiNavalny, who died in Russian custody, will attend the #EU foreign affairs council on Monday. For many years, Navalnaya insisted she had no interest in getting into politics, but since Navalny’s death on Friday, she appears to have turned into her late husband’s torchbearer. #Russia#Ukraine#AlexeiNavalny
In killing #Navalny, she told Russians, #Putin didn’t just want to kill a person: “He wanted to kill our hopes, our freedom, and our future.”
Navalnaya also said that she knows “exactly what Putin killed Alexey for” and that his team will speak publicly about this in the near future. #Russia#Ukraine#AlexeiNavalny
Russian opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny has died after feeling unwell & losing consciousness following a walk on Friday in the penal colony where he was held, according to the country's prison service. He was 47. Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov told reporters today that Russian President Vladimir #Putin has been informed of his death, & prison medics are working to identify the cause of death.
VP #KamalaHarris briefly met w/ #AlexeiNavalny’s wife, #YuliaNavalnaya, at the Munich Security Conference on Fri.
Navalnaya was present during Harris’s remarks at the conference, & Harris sat in the front row while Navalnaya spoke.
“The vice president expressed her sorrow & outrage over reports of his death, & the vice president said her prayers are w/ Yulia & the entire family,” a WH ofcl said.
The 2 met after Harris concluded meetings w/ a trio of foreign leaders.
#Ukraine’s popular army chief Valery #Zaluzhny was called to a meeting at the president’s office on Monday and told he was being fired, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN, following weeks of growing speculation over tensions between Volodymyr #Zelensky and his top commander.
A formal announcement has not been made, however, a presidential decree is expected by the end of the week.
"If this is true, I want #Putin and everyone around him to know that they will be held accountable for everything they did to our country, to my family.
For me, very strong echoes of what happened to #NinoyAquino on that fateful day on the airport tarmac in Manila. His wife, #CoryAquino, then took over the opposition - the rest is history.