"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.

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Dead people?

      Though I agree with the intent. We need more people willing to stand up for what is right, even if it kills them.

      • vlad@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Oh I agree. I don’t think I’d be able to do what he did, but it’s inspiring to see. And in the end if you want to have a positive impact on the world you have to do what you believe is right no matter what. And we can be 100% certain now that his motivations were selfless.

    • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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

        • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          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
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            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.”

            • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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              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”.

        • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
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          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.

          • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            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
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              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

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            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
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                  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.

                  • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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                    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.