Yulia Navalnaya: Russian opposition leader's 'principled and fearless' widow - BBC News

Yulia Navalnaya kept a low profile in the past, but her husband's death could see her take a more public role.

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Watch: 'I will continue Alexei's work', says Navalny's widow

Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia has always kept a low profile, insisting that her main role was as a wife and mother not a politician.

But with her husband's death on Friday and her impassioned appeal for justice at the Munich Security Conference, she has emerged as a major figure in Russia's beleaguered opposition perhaps by default.

Despite her background role in the past, Ms Navalnaya has always been a crucial supporter of her husband, and was instrumental in getting him out of Russia for urgent treatment when he was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in 2020.

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