The widow of Alexei Navalny demanded that the Russian authorities remove her late husband from the Kremlin's terrorist list. She received a rejection letter. “Putin is afraid of Alexei even after he murdered him,” Yulia Navalnaya commented.
Yulia Navalnaya published a letter from Rosfinmonitornig – the Russian office responsible for counteracting money laundering and terrorist financing – which she received in response to her request to remove her husband Alexei from the list of “terrorists”.
The widow of the oppositionist emphasized that, according to the law on financing terrorism, the death of a person should unconditionally result in the removal of his name from the Kremlin's “blacklist”.
A poster reading “Alexei Navalny was murdered” in WashingtonSHAWN THEW/PAP/EPA
Meanwhile, Rosfinmonitornig justified the refusal by saying that it had not received information about the discontinuation of the criminal case against Navalny.
“Putin is afraid of Alexei even after he murdered him,” commented Navalna, who is also on the Kremlin's terrorist list.
Death of an oppositionist
On February 16, Russian authorities announced the sudden death of Navalny, the Kremlin's most famous political opponent. Navalny – who criticized Putin's regime for abuse of power and corruption – allegedly died in mysterious circumstances in a labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where he was serving a 19-year prison sentence, and was facing up to 30 years in prison.
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