Yulia Navalnaya’s arrest is ordered in absentia by a Russian court

On Tuesday, a Moscow court ruled that Yulia Navalnaya, the late opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s widow, would be detained for two months without being present in person.

The court charged Navalnaya, who is not a resident of Russia, with belonging to a group that is considered “extremist”. She would very certainly be arrested as a result of the decision if she entered the nation.

After her husband passed away in an Arctic prison camp in February, 47-year-old Navalnaya gained notoriety and declared she would keep fighting for what she referred to as the “beautiful Russia of the future.”

In an article published on X on Tuesday, Navalnaya urged her followers to concentrate on the fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin rather than the court decision against her.

“When you write about this, please don’t forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal,” she said.

“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-meter cell in which he killed Alexei.”

The Kremlin denies giving the order to murder Navalny.

Following her husband’s passing, Navalnaya traveled to San Francisco and spoke with several influential Western figures, including US President Joe Biden.

Last week, the charity Human Rights Foundation in the United States appointed Navalnaya as its chair. She declared that she would use her new position to intensify her husband’s opposition to Putin.

“We will take on board everything that can be useful to fight Putin, to fight for the beautiful Russia of the future,” Navalnaya told X.