A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism, according to state media.
The charges brought against Yulia Navalnaya, who lives outside Russia, in absentia are to do with her alleged “participation in an extremist society”, Tass news agency said.
Navalny was Russia’s most significant opposition leader of the past decade. He died in February in an Arctic Circle jail. Russian authorities said he died of natural causes - but his widow said Navalny had been “tortured, starved, cut off and killed” by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
Navalny had been serving 19 years on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.
Responding to the arrest warrant against her, Yulia Navalnaya posted on X: "When you write about this, please do not forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.
She’s in danger in any country, Putin’s grunts this year already shot a defector who received a new identity and lived in Spain. Ended up in an underground garage with a few bullets in his body. Granted, he was stupid / desperate enough to contact his spouse in Russia to come join him. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68337794#
And left Ukraine to hang out in a Russian Mafia infested Spanish tourist town.
lol yeah not a bright one
I don’t really expect random Russian citizens to know every city with a Russian mob presence
Whoever gave him a new identity would have told him whether his choice of place is a good one…
That’s true. I hope she will survive the Russian terrorists.
Personally I’d go live in Reykjavik. I highly doubt the Russian enforcers operate there. Plus if they find me there’s always the chance of a convenient volcano delaying them.
Also if Putins agents have you surrounded, you could just pick up Björk by her feet and roundhouse ‘em by swinging her in a circle