1 RUSSIA
Widow of Alexei Navalny vows to continue his fight
Yulia Navalnaya has 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 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,” she said in a nine-minute video published on social media.
On Monday, Navalnaya accused the Russian authorities of murdering her husband. She said she knew “why exactly Putin killed Alexei three days ago”. “And we will tell you that soon.”
Earlier, Navalny’s aides said his mother and his lawyers had not been allowed into the morgue near the prison colony where authorities said he had died. Over 63,000 people have signed a petition to Russian investigators demanding the release of Navalny’s body, a campaign initiated by the Russian human rights group OVD-Info.
The Kremlin said it had “nothing to add” to the news on the death of Navalny and denies any involvement.
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2 EUROPEAN UNION
EC president von der Leyen to run for a second term
Ursula von der Leyen is to seek a second term as president of the European Commission and head of the most powerful institution in Brussels. Speaking at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party meeting in
