Appeal from the mother of the Russian dissident to Russian President Vladimir Putin Alexei Navalny died in a penal colony in recent days: “Give me back my son’s body.” Lyudmila Navalnaya, released a video with an appeal to Vladimir Putin to return her son's body to her. The news was published by Navalny's team.
Navalny's mother speaks outdoors, in the snow, in front of the IK-3 penal colony where her son died on February 16. “For the fifth day I didn’t see him, they didn’t give me his body and they didn’t even tell me where he was,” the woman said. “I am turning to you, Vladimir Putin,” the message continues, “the solution to the problem depends only on you. Let me finally see my son. I ask that Alexei's body be handed over immediately so that I can bury him humanely.” The video ends with a shot of the dome of a church with a cross on it. The head of Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, emphasized that a written appeal had been sent to Putin at the same time.
Video from Navalny's mother to Putin: “May my son's body be returned”
Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, also asked and wrote about who else could ask questions: “Don't ask about me, ask about Alexei,” the opponent's wife adds. And Platform X blocked Yulia Navalnaya's account and then reactivated it. The first post that can be seen contains the video of Navalny's mother with an appeal to Putin to have the opponent's body handed over to the family.
Meanwhile, Russia is not accepting requests for an international investigation into the death of Alexei Navalnyespecially when they come here Josep Borrell. This is what the Kremlin spokesman said Dmitry Peskovquoted by Tass.
Responding to the words of the widow of the recently deceased Russian dissident against Putin, Peskov said they were “completely unfounded and gross accusations against the Russian head of state.” Yulia Navalnaya, who said in a video yesterday that Putin had killed her husband. Dmitry Peskov explained further Putin would not have seen yesterday's recordings in which Yulia Navalnaya says that she will continue her husband's work. “No, the president didn’t see it,” Peskov said, according to Tass.
For her part, Yulia Navalnaya responded that she was not concerned about the Kremlin's reaction to her accusation that President Vladimir Putin was behind her death. “I don’t care how a murderer’s press spokesman comments on my words,” the dissident’s widow, who vowed to continue her husband’s work, wrote on X. Yulia Navalnaya also called on the EU not to recognize it the presidential elections which will take place next month and at which Vladimir Putin is running for a fifth mandate. The appeal was launched yesterday in a speech to foreign ministers in Brussels, the content of which Navalny's team published. “A president who killed his main political opponent cannot, by definition, be legitimate,” Navalnaya said.
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