The Interview: Yulia Navalnaya

Alexei Navalny was President Putin’s most vocal critic. Poisoned by a deadly nerve agent and later jailed in Russia, Navalny died in February 2024 in one of the country’s most brutal penal colonies. As his memoir, Patriot, is published-including never-before-seen prison diaries-his wife Yulia tells their story to the BBC and explains why she would like to be President of Russia.
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The Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was a fierce critic of President Putin. He died in an Arctic Circle jail in February while serving 19 years on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated. The Russians said he died of natural causes, but world
leaders including the US President Joe Biden believed Mr Putin was responsible. For this episode of 5 Minutes On, the BBC’s Culture and Media editor, Katie Razzall, has been speaking to Mr Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, about her husband’s memoir which is published this week, and about her plans for the future.