A court in Moscow has ordered the imprisonment of Yulia Navalnaya - widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny - for two months. The court accused Navalnaya, who lives in exile, of participating in an "extremist" group. The decision means she faces certain arrest if she sets foot in the country.
Navalnaya, 47, stepped into the spotlight following her husband's death in an Arctic penal colony in February, and said she would continue the fight for what Navalny called the "beautiful Russia of the future". Writing on X on Tuesday, Navalnaya told her supporters to focus not on the court order against her, but on the battle against Russian President Vladimir Putin. "When you write about this, please don't forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal," she wrote.
"His place is in prison and not somewhere in The Hague, in a cozy cell with a TV, but in Russia - in the same [penal] colony and the same 2-by-3 metre cell in which he killed Alexey." READ | Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison The Kremlin has denied ordering Navalny killed. Since her husband's death, Navalnaya has met a number of Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden in San Francisco.
The US-based nonprofit group Human Rights Foundation named Navalnaya its chair last week, and she said she would use the new role to step up the struggle waged by her husband against Putin. She said: Navalnaya left Russia in 2021 and has lived in Germany since h.
