Speech From The Wife Of Critic Alexei Navalny Who Vibrated Parliament: Putin Must Be Responsible

Speech from the wife of critic Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya (B BBC screenshot)

JAKARTA - Speech from the wife of critic Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya shook parliament with lively applause. He said her late husband would not see a beautiful Russia in the future. He told parliament they should fight this 'criminal gang' and urged financial investigations to be key instead of diplomatic methods. "The tens of millions of Russians oppose Putin and they should not be persecuted," he stressed in a speech quoted by the BBC, Wednesday, February 28. Navalanaya added that Putin must answer for what she has done to Russia, Ukraine, and her husband. "Putin must be responsible for what he has done to my country. Putin must be responsible for what he has done to peaceful neighboring countries. And Putin must answer everything he has done to Alexei," Navalanaya said. Ended with respect for Navalny, he added "My husband will never see what a beautiful Russia will look like in the future, but we have to see it. And I will do my best to make his dream come true, that crime will fall and this beautiful future will come." Alexei Navalny will be buried in a cemetery in Moscow on Friday, this week. The funeral will be held at Borisovskoye Cemetery, after the farewell ceremony in Maryino district. On Tuesday, February 27, as quoted by the BBC, a spokesman for the opposition leader said his team was struggling to find a funeral home after some refused to hold a service when they found out who it was for. Alexei Navalny suddenly died in an Arctic prison earlier this month. For years, he is the most famous critic of Vladimir Putin. Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, and several world leaders, directly blamed the Russian president for his death. Navalny's team initially wanted to hold a funeral on February 29, but "it became clear quickly that no one around was able to dig graves that day", Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny, wrote on X.