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THE GRIEVING widow of Alexei Navalny has warned that Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin could use nuclear weapons.
Yulia Navalnaya referred to the President’s unpredictability, saying that Putin just wants to keep people living in fear.
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A new report suggests that Navalny was tortured before his deathNavalnaya warned that the West cannot rule out the possibility that Putin would use nuclear weapons at some point in the future.
She said: “We don’t know what to expect from him. He probably would do it.”
Navalnaya went on to compare the possibility of Putin using nukes to his invasion of Ukraine – recalling that she had not expected Putin to attack.
She said: “But he decided to do it. He is terrorising people, keeping them in fear.
“Nobody knows what Putin is going to do next.”
Navalnaya added that she is unsure whether Putin has a “strong strategy”.
Although, she also alluded to the recent spying scandals and arrests in Europe in her argument that Putin has been slyly waging war in the continent for years.
She said: “Putin did not just start, he has been doing this all along. He starts wars, he kills his opponents.
“I always assumed that there were many Russian spies in Europe: Russian spies, that’s obvious.”
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Russian secret agents were thrown out of the Nato HQ in Brussels, Belgium, after their deception was uncovered.
Five suspected Russian spies, Bulgarian nationals Orlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova, are also currently awaiting trial in the UK accused of espionage.
The brave widow reiterated her determination to topple Putin’s regime, urging the West to support her fight.
Since the death of her husband, Navalnaya has been calling on supporters to protest against the dictator.
Hundreds swarmed polling stations, many more spoiled their ballots with Navalny’s name, and huge crowds gathered to chant “Russia without Putin” at the opposition leader’s funeral.
But the widow also dreams of being able to return to her home one day.
She said: “I want to live in Russia. My children dream of returning to Russia. I want to go to my husband’s grave. It’s very important to me.
“I hope that I can do that very, very soon. I dream of going there as soon as possible.”
Yulia Navalnaya’s husband Alexei Navalny was found dead at the feared “Polar Wolf” jail, where he was serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges – charges he always denied.
Russia’s penitentiary authorities initially said the politician “felt unwell” and fainted after a walk in the prison yard.
The official narrative remains that the opposition leader died of “sudden death syndrome” – a vague term for different cardiac symptoms that lead to cardiac arrest and death.
However, a new report alleges that the original autopsy results revealed the jailed opposition leader, 47, had blood clots in the arms and muscles – before Kremlin agents covered it up.
Sources told Russian human rights organisation gulagu.net that forensic experts were forced to hide findings by Putin’s secret service.
Gulagu.net – which is headed by Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin – claimed: “The forensic expert was pressured to conceal the discovery of blood clots….in the calf muscles and arms”.
This indicated “the formation of blood clots as a result of disruption of normal blood circulation”.
A source told the organisation that the forensic physician concluded “that four to five hours before the onset of biological death, the prisoner was tied up and his arms and legs”.
His limbs “were tightly tied just so that the blood stagnated and blood clots formed in it, which then clogged the pulmonary artery and blood vessels of the brain”, said a statement from the organisation.
Life of Alexei Navalny
PUTIN'S best known opponent Alexei Navalny, 47, has died in prison.
Here is a timeline that took the leader of the opposition from the face of freedom in Russia and the Kremlin’s biggest foe to a hellhole Siberian prison and onto an early grave.
June 4, 1976 — Navalny is born in a western part of the Moscow region
1997 — Graduates from Russia’s RUDN university, where he majored in law
2004 — Forms a movement against rampant over-development in Moscow
2008 — Gains notoriety for calling out corruption in state-run corporation
December 2011 — Participates in mass protests sparked by reports of widespread rigging of Russia’s election, and is arrested and jailed for 15 days for “defying a government official”
March 2012 – Further mass protests break out and Navalny accuses key Kremlin cronies of corruption
July 2012 — Russia’s Investigative Committee charges Navalny with embezzlement. He rejects the claims and says they are politically motivated
2013 — Navalny runs for mayor in Moscow
July 2013 — A court in Kirov convicts Navalny of embezzlement in the Kirovles case, sentencing him to five years in prison – he appeals and is allowed to continue campaign
September 2013 — Official results show Navalny finishes second in the mayor’s race
February 2014 — Navalny is placed under house arrest
December 2014 — Navalny and his brother, Oleg, are found guilty of fraud
February 2016 — The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia violated Navalny’s right to a fair trial
November 2016 — Russia’s Supreme Court overturns Navalny’s sentence
December 2016 — Navalny announces he will run in Russia’s 2018 presidential election
February 2017 — The Kirov court retries Navalny and upholds his five-year suspended sentence from 2013
April 2017 – Survives an assassination attempt he blames on Kremlin
December 2017 — Russia’s Central Electoral Commission bars him from running for president
August, 2020 – Navalny falls into a coma on a flight and his team suspects he was poisoned. German authorities confirm he was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent.
Jan 2021 — After five months in Germany, Navalny is arrested upon his return to Russia
Feb 2021 — A Moscow court orders Navalny to serve 2 ½ years in prison
June 2021 — A Moscow court shuts down Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and his extended political network
Feb 2022 — Russia invades Ukraine
March 2022 — Navalny is sentenced to an additional nine-year term for embezzlement and contempt of court
2023 — Over 400 Russian doctors sign an open letter to Putin, urging an end to what it calls abuse of Navalny, following reports that he was denied basic medication & suffering from slow poisoning
April, 2023 — Navalny from inside prison says he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life
Aug 2023 – A court in Russia extends Navalny’s prison sentence by 19 years
Dec 2023 – He disappears from his prison as his team fear he could be assassination. He then reappears weeks later in one of Siberia’s toughest prisons – the ‘Polar Wolf’ colony
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