"No one will protect us except ourselves," she said on Monday.

“We know why Putin killed Alexei three days ago,” Yulia Navalnaya said Monday.

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being involved her husband’s death and vowed on Monday to continue his work.

“We know why Putin killed Alexei three days ago, we will tell you about it soon,” she said in a video message. “But the main thing we can do for Alexei and for ourselves is to continue to fight. I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny, continue to fight for our country, and I urge you to stand next to me.”

Navalny, a long-time Russian opposition politician and critic of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin died in prison at age 47 on Friday, the state prison service said.

  • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1255·
    9 months ago

    More radical assholes than even Putin? I’m all about Putin’s shit getting kicked in, but Navalny and folks like him are not a solution we should explore. I’m sick of people glorifying both of those assholes. Defending Navalny is like defending solving your wasp problem with rabid badgers. I don’t want either in my home, and though the latter may solve the first, it’s going to create some much bigger problems

      • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
        443·
        9 months ago

        They fell for the Russian disinformation campaign trying to paint Navalny as a far right nationalist and proponent of the Ukraine invasion, even though he repeatedly voiced his disapproval in recent years.

        • uisEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          RT propaganda works it seems

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          9 months ago

          far right nationalist and proponent of the Ukraine invasion

          If that had been true, he’d have LOVED Putin ffs 🤦

              • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                53·
                9 months ago

                In one of the videos, in which he advocates for gun rights, he compares militants from the Caucasus to cockroaches and mimics shooting one who attempts to “attack” him.

                you don’t need to believe me but i hope you look into it.

                • uisEnglish
                  12·
                  9 months ago

                  And killing journalist in the middle of Moscow is ok? Or another journalist and human rights activist? Or killed later Boris Nemtsov? To be fair Kadirov killed even his own bodyguard. Also mentioned gun laws are copy of ukrainian gun laws. Speaking of ukrainians: apparently in 2022 he grown tired of killing only russians and chechens, so he kills ukrainians since then too.

                  Speaking of cockroaches and other animals: is it now how western media calls russians now? And by extent call chechens too. So russians can’t talk about domestic problems, but foreign media can talk about russians’ problems?

                  I already can see your mental gymnastics coming.

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    52·
                    9 months ago

                    >Speaking of ukrainians: apparently in 2022 he grown tired of killing only russians and chechens, so he kills ukrainians since then too.

                    you’re not going to catch me saying putin does good things. i don’t know if he’s ever done a single good thing.

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    1·
                    9 months ago

                    >And killing journalist in the middle of Moscow is ok? Or another journalist and human rights activist? Or later he killed Boris NemtsovTo be fair Kadirov killed even his own bodyguard.

                    i never suggested any of this was alright.

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    11·
                    9 months ago

                    >Speaking of cockroaches and other animals: is it now how western media calls russians now?

                    i haven’t heard that, but i’d condemn it if i did.

        • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
          113·
          9 months ago

          Russian disinformation? Can you name a single policy that would have made Navalny a desirable outcome? You think he’d pull out of Ukraine?

          • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
            161·
            9 months ago

            In February 2022, Navalny compared the recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic by Russia to when Soviet leaders deployed troops to Afghanistan in 1979, describing both events as a distraction to the population from real issues. He said that he believes that while Putin will not allow Ukraine to develop, Russia will pay the same price, and that Putin needed to be removed to save Russia.

            On 2 March 2022, Navalny urged Russian citizens to stage daily protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying Russia should not be a “nation of frightened people” and “cowards who pretend not to notice the aggressive war” launched by “our insane tsar”.

            If, to prevent war, we need to fill up the jails and police vans, we will fill up the jails and police vans. Everything has a price and now, in the spring of 2022, we should pay that price. — Alexei Navalny

            Navalny would’ve been the preferable candidate in every regard. The list of reasons is literally too long to be summarized by a single comment.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Foreign_policy

            • uisEnglish
              4·
              9 months ago

              He also had good internal policy

      • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
        617·
        9 months ago

        Because the man is a racist, imperialist, fash piece of shit. It’s an unfortunate mentality when you figure there’s only two options here. There are a million better outcomes possible. Forgive me for not rooting for Pinochet to replace Pol Pot.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          141·
          9 months ago

          Please provide the proof, you’re just saying stuff, I’m asking you to support your position.

          I’m curious and I’m not against you, but I can’t take what you’re saying as serious if you are only saying “feelings.”

          • uisEnglish
            6·
            9 months ago

            I already can guess he will try to frame Navalny’s video from 16 years ago about Basaev’s militants and Kadirov’s personal army as “racism towards muslims”.