Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya, White House says
Joe Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, and the activist’s daughter, Dasha Navalnaya, in California on Thursday, the White House said.
Navalny, the main opposition leader to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, died in an Arctic penal colony last Friday after being imprisoned by the Kremlin.
In a message on X, Biden said: “Today, I met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya – Aleksey Navalny’s loved ones – to express my condolences for their devastating loss.
“Aleksey’s legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha, and the countless people across Russia fighting for democracy and human rights.”
Biden has previously put the blame for Navalny’s death squarely on Putin. “There is no doubt that the death of Navalny is a consequence of something Putin and his thugs did,” he said.
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