{"id":39601,"date":"2024-03-07T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/yulia-navalnaya-alexei-navalnys-stoic-partner"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:38:04","slug":"yulia-navalnaya-alexei-navalnys-stoic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/yulia-navalnaya-alexei-navalnys-stoic-partner","title":{"rendered":"Yulia Navalnaya: Alexei Navalny\u2019s stoic partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Yulia Navalnaya had not seen her husband Alexei in two years when she spoke at the Munich Security Conference after news broke that he had died in his Arctic prison.<\/p>\n

With tears in her eyes, Navalnaya \u2014 by her husband\u2019s side as he challenged President Vladimir Putin\u2019s rule for more than a decade \u2014 took a deep breath.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is true, then I want Putin and all his entourage, Putin\u2019s friends and his government to know: they will bear responsibility for what they did to our country, to my family, to my husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this day will come very soon,\u201d the 47-year-old said, her hair in a tight bun as always.<\/p>\n

Navalnaya had stood by her fearless husband as he galvanised mass protests in Russia, flying him out of the country as he lay in a coma after a poisoning and defiantly returning to Moscow with him.<\/p>\n

She has since clung on to the hope that she would see him again even as he was given 19 years in prison and sent to the harshest possible prison. \u201cI hope and I believe that I will see Alexei free.<\/p>\n

There is nothing impossible when you are in love,\u201d she told Der Spiegel last year. As his fight against the Kremlin became ever more daring, Navalny would say he could not make it without his wife.<\/p>\n

His last message to the outside world was a Valentine\u2019s Day note to her: \u201cI feel that you are with me every second. \u201d In her first social media post after her husband\u2019s death, she shared a photo of him kissing her forehead.<\/p>\n

The caption read: \u201cI love you. \u201d The couple often shared photographs of their family life with their children. Their love story inspired Navalny\u2019s followers. It presented a stark contrast to Putin, who keeps his personal life in utter secrecy.<\/p>\n

Navalnaya has always insisted she is primarily a mother and a wife uninterested in going into politics, resisting calls to take on a more active political role even when her husband was a free man.<\/p>\n

But many are now left wondering if there is anyone else to unite a leaderless and exiled opposition. \u2018I had to get him out\u2019 The Munich speech was not the first time Navalnaya showed stoicism.<\/p>\n

In summer 2020, she watched her husband almost die when he was poisoned in Siberia by what doctors said was a Soviet nerve agent. She then managed to get him out of the country \u2014 as he lay in a coma with local doctors refusing to let him go \u2014 with the help of a German charity.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery moment when we were there, I thought \u2018I had to get him out\u2019,\u201d Navalnaya told Russian filmmaker and blogger Yuri Dud in an interview during her husband\u2019s recovery in Germany.<\/p>\n

She said state doctors in Siberia were trying to drag out the process for him to either die or for the nerve agent not to be traceable. Five months later, she was just as defiant when the couple flew back to Moscow, knowing it would land him in jail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaiter, bring us some vodka, we\u2019re flying home,\u201d Navalnaya said in a video sitting next to Alexei on the plane, copying a scene from a Russian cult film.<\/p>\n

The couple were separated at passport control upon landing, the last time she saw her husband free. They briefly embraced before police took him away and she was greeted at the airport to chants of \u201cYulia!\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018Darkest things\u2019 Navalnaya has described her life since as \u201cletters, letters, letters\u201d, saying she tried to write to her husband every day.<\/p>\n

The two met on holiday in Turkey, with both saying they fell in love immediately. Navalnaya gave up a job in banking to raise the couple\u2019s children as Alexei\u2019s political career took off.<\/p>\n

As he recovered from the poisoning in Germany, Navalny joked that his wife\u2019s views were more radical than his. \u201cWhen you are not a politician but you see the darkest things against your family then, of course, it radicalises you,\u201d he said in the interview with Dud.<\/p>\n

Since Navalny was imprisoned, Navalnaya has said she would not follow the path of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya \u2014 who became Belarus\u2019s opposition leader after her husband was jailed.<\/p>\n

The pair symbolically hugged in Munich after Navalny\u2019s death. \u201cYulia Navalnaya is becoming a political figure whether she wants it or not,\u201d Russian political commentator Tatiana Stanovaya said on social media the day Navalny died.<\/p>\n

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