How Alexei Navalny’s Widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Is Challenging Putin | WSJ

Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, is emerging as a new political force, after she promised to carry on her husband’s struggle for a free Russia. The most vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin died on Feb. 16 in an Arctic penal colony while serving sentences amounting to more than 30 years on various charges.
WSJ’s Thomas Grove explains what role she could play and the challenges ahead for her and the Russian opposition.
Chapters:
0:00 Alexei Navalny dies
0:41 Who is Navalnaya?
2:07 State of opposition
3:07 Navalny’s threat after death
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[@theresa1305]

She really should be provided A+ protection.

[@usernwn7qe]

she makes more money than Joe Biden

[@theghostofrethsich2813]

CIA+ protection since most of Russia believes that’s what her husband was

[@gost5835]

She has it. She is well paid informant/ activist! Guess who is paying her to enjoy lavish life in Germany?

[@user-sq7zp3to4w]

Держите её под Чечваркиным.

[@user-qm8bc4bu1t]

I guess bodyguards. Usually for victims of org crime.

[@Jerry10939]

I just hope she doesn’t disappear.

[@sas-ds1wz]

Depends on what CIA wants to do with her , her dead husband was a CIA tool!

[@AdhoksajaDas]

don't care at all

[@Sukunaglazer12]

She asked for it💁‍♀️

[@user-ez8le1rp3x]

She'll just get defunded by the US government, you won't even remember her name

[@AnubisFenrir]

She will

[@chesstictacs3107]

You can’t intimidate a woman who has nothing else to lose

[@Darkest_Soul_187]

She still has kids, and Putin won't stop at anything so..

[@guscvindel]

What do you mean nothing else to lose she's got kids a I assume her family her life shame on you she's got her life ahead of her

[@daa533]

She is evil

[@helenabright5741]

Oh dear, she's everything to LIVE FOR AND GOD BLESS YULIA AND HER BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 👪 🙏 🌱 Their guardian angels 😇 😇 😇 are protecting them too. Remember. 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@intheshell35ify]

​@@helenabright5741your message is scatterbrained and devoid of real meaning. Why don't you take a few minutes and use your own words without emojis to tell us what you really feel. YOUR WORDS PLEASE.

[@Svyatoslaav]

А чего она будет "продолжать"?))) он то ничего не делал... и она собралась продолжать это же пустословство?

[@adtu21]

Сидеть будет)

[@Svyatoslaav]

@@adtu21 ах, вон оно что...

[@General-Dudulka]

брить донаты со школоты )

[@peragulgod5054]

Будет рассказывать про проклятую "рашку" и про свободную (от свободы) европу 🤣🤣🤣

[@TinLeadHammer]

Thank you for the news about Navalny. Now it is time to report about Assange, don't you think? The last time you did it was five years ago.

[@scipioafricanus4875]

I'm afraid for her and her family

[@vvm101]

Well Lira Gongazel got murdered !

[@1luv1life47]

​@@withAI777don't kid yourself they got Russia assassin spies everywhere 😮

[@Tardenglobe2346]

Why? Clowns are not taken seriously.

[@blolee-gc1sr]

CIA promised navalny security, money and week tour on epsteins island.now look at him.his wife in bidens arm.

[@gost5835]

@@Tardenglobe2346why your parents didn’t go for abortion ? They regret that every single day.

[@amanishajay914]

You have my full support Yulia!!!!❤

[@mikec1096]

wall street, please report the news and not wishful thinking.

[@user-ez8le1rp3x]

Don't you understand? We, russians, want to be free! Just like Julia Navalny - living in the US instead of Russia. You should open up your borders and let all of Russia come live at your place.

[@user-yp3hh1el2v]

​@@user-ez8le1rp3x"We Russians..." How pompous you are! I'm Russian and I'm free. I support my President and my army. The most of us do it. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

[@user-rh8fl8qz2z]

So brokenhearted that she embarks on a whirlwind tour complete with cameras, lighting, film crew, makeover, voice coach, makeup artist, new wardrobe and image consultant. A book deal is already in the works. Things are not as they seem. Politics is always full of smoke and mirrors.

[@godfreyberry1599]

Must she look like a bag lady?. She's perfect, strong and beautiful.

[@svetlanar9300]

Sure thing. After all that entourage and lime light that she already tasted and most certainly enjoyed at the Oscar”s last year. Never mind her husband somehow having an access to and giving interviews to the western media while being in a Russian jail. What a “torture” indeed. And what a fake “fight for democracy” agenda they have been trying to put on for naive westerns for their own taxpayer $$$$

[@sofiabessonova2214]

​@@godfreyberry1599и нигде не работает.))) Кто её содержит? Ваш дружок Байден, как понимаю?

[@user-zi5en4tw7q]

​@@godfreyberry1599она лицемерка

[@catied6913]

Yeah, whatever you say, Russian bot.

[@bigdada018]

Go Go Yulia!

[@dhoraray1310]

Only that one who really experienced the feeling of losing half of the inner self, half of herself in such a situation can truly understand Yulia's grief of the loss of beloved one Alexei Navalnyi. May Almighty the Creator Grant her with due power to withstand the Black Evil who seized the power and commits endless crimes.

[@giselameunier4788]

OH , come on, get thing wright

[@user-dt9xt3jk8p]

Т Байден предлагал Юлии бороться против Путина это страшно для России Юлия как Тихоновская оба дуреют Юлии запрещено приехать в Россию

[@when__is__mikkel]

Lets talk about JULIAN ASSANGE😝

[@trooper101st.7]

Assange ? 🤡🤡

[@tidusfantasy]

why did alex even return to russia, after narrowly escaped death??? I appreciate his bravery, but it was such a deathly move..

[@Lena-qq9ce]

She never visited her husband in prison , although she could do it, she was not threatened to go to Russia. She didn't even wait 3 grieving days like Russians do, but instead took a stage at Munich meeting. Up today, she didn't even see his body.

[@alexeyivanov-golitsin955]

He couldn’t do otherwise really, this would contradict to his very nature. Alexei underestimated pootin’s madness. He also didn’t expect the war with Ukraine - that made pootin even more desperate and determined

[@sasharemez7459]

I think he thought people Will rally behind him, especially after poisoning. He was wrong about that

[@christianecon9653]

Martyrdom? His fame has increased exponentially since his murder.

[@alexeyivanov-golitsin955]

@@sasharemez7459 Navalny was indeed extremely popular. No one knows his rating because true stats is basically forbidden in Russia. People did rally, but a lot of them were thrown to prison themselves, a lot of them were scared to continue rallying. There is a reason you guys in America have second amendment. Russians do not have it, so it really does not matter if people rally, pootin will keep doing whatever he wants

[@R08Tam]

He didn't die, he was murdered

[@GRyurik]

Если его убили, то это были Западные спецслужбы, так от мертвого им больше пользы, чем от живого. Любой кто играет в свободолюбивого демократа на деньги чужих стран должен понимать, что его пустят в расход, как только заказчику "демократизации" будет это выгодно.

[@aajabbinmagosh5509]

Political force come on let lady live in peace she already lost her husband do not manipulate her grievances for political games.... hope she will be save

[@twoknightfall3722]

Don't worry , she has plenty of boyfriends .

[@minhtientran8158]

Gonzalo Lira!?????

[@user-ez8le1rp3x]

we're not mentioning his name here on this channel

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

Yulia is so brave, definitely a force to watch! 👏

[@StardustAnnE]

The 2 years Navalny was in Prison she Never visited him 😂. They were separated in 2021 according to His mother, so she's No widow she's the next pawn of the West. Imagine being so gullible to believe a woman you Never saw and never knew she existed before he Died

[@MsSherlock69]

She just needs western sponsors!

[@Arcsurvivor]

@@StardustAnnEwell none of us will ever understand how the whole family could make such a brave sacrifice for freedom. Flowers for Navalny 💐🌸🌹🎶

[@gost5835]

@@StardustAnnE Well said and very true!

[@gost5835]

@@Arcsurvivor I have a good news for you. You will never have a brain cancer! In order to have it you need a brain!

[@user-pz6ls4uk8k]

Эти персонажи в россии нам надоели. Они постоянно врут

[@sofiabessonova2214]

Планы у них, конечно, грандиозные.

[@odgereldankhar3043]

Юлия эта следующий Зеленский.😅

[@wandajones4063]

Yes she can and that monster better watch out! She's got strong backup and not just Russians!

[@sofiabessonova2214]

Русские её не поддерживают!!!

[@user-zi5en4tw7q]

Вы серьёзно считаете что это шоу продержится больше месяца???

[@markh3376]

I'm supporting Yulia...😊

[@helenabright5741]

Stay safe Yulia with your loving family. Please know that you are a truly Beautiful, Inspirational, Courageous, Charismatic and Strong Lady. Thank you. God Bless. 🙏💞🌱🌠

[@MsSherlock69]

She lives in Germany and has nothing to do with Russia!

[@whatgives1482]

By "loving family", do you mean her kids or her boyfriend?

[@helenabright5741]

@@whatgives1482 what do you mean?

[@MsSherlock69]

@@helenabright5741 She has a rich lover Chichvarkin. IS IT REALLY INSPIRATIONAL FOR YOU?●●

[@helenabright5741]

@@MsSherlock69 Prove it.

[@neerjasaraswat161]

People please give her US or UK citizenship so that Russia can be safe place

[@sofiabessonova2214]

Не переживайте, ФСБ её уничтожит.

[@dove5591]

😂😂😂 Why would Russia want a witch when it has an Emperor!!!

[@twoknightfall3722]

Navalny had more political support in West then in Russia 2% . Maybe he should have run for EU parliament instead.

[@spencerearl9964]

That’s the classic propaganda that’s factually incorrect. Navalny had a large following. Why else would Putin poison him, kidnap him, send him to a penal colony, and then murdered him?

[@spencerearl9964]

Also, why would they be arresting people for gathering to mourn his death if he wasn’t an issue?

[@spencerearl9964]

Why would they poison him, kidnap him, send him to a penal colony, and murder him if he wasn’t a threat? More Russian propaganda from a bot.

[@user-qm8cm1dn2v]

... Obtaining Dafa [Great Law] and forging the golden body, one returns home "Homebound Heaven has no Dao, and Earth no de-the cosmos in peril Myriad Gods and Buddhas in the heavens watch helplessly with tears of despair Thunder roars in the firmament, sentient beings will be saved The Holy King of the Law Wheel is born, flying down He creates the Three Realms, sets right the heavens’ Fa, saves all from vast to tiny He alone is shouldering the sinful karma of beings in heaven and earth Remaking cosmic bodies, rectifying the Fa, and renewing the universe Obtaining Dafa [Great Law] and forging the golden body, one returns home November 8, 2018" Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin V, from Falun Dafa teachings)

[@daa533]

Exactly Navalny had closer to 1% support in Russia. He fights for a western controlled non sovereign Russia. Ofcourse westerners love him.

[@Vifnis]

Putin: *"who's Navalny"*

[@susanaldawood5480]

PRAYING FOR YULIA N HER FAMILY FOR RUSSIA'S FREEDOM FROM PUTIN'S CLOUT.

[@user-ez8le1rp3x]

Praying? More like paying for her and her spoiled brats

[@paquitoignacio3449]

She could challenge Putin, the only problem is will she survive if she can get killed for it , its very dangerous I admire her courage.

[@helenabright5741]

A highly intelligent lady for sure who will have discussed everything in the minutest detail with her beloved husband. Recklessness is not one of them. Mrs Yulia Navalny BRAVE LADY has good moral principled friends and World Presidents in high places. A NATURAL chess player she will check mate Putin a ♟ pawn who gets in the way. 🎲

[@user-zi5en4tw7q]

🙄кто такая навальная??? Какая борьба? Вы че там курите

[@80-80.]

The Navalny movement has become tens of times bigger just a week after the murder.

[@senpaiXmelody]

Hahah

[@mariacosta4463]

💯 🇨🇦stranding with you dear Yulia!

[@Big_Caesar1]

@@travisfubu9053 Why comment then? Are you afraid?

[@europeets]

Посмотрел в окно. Никакого движения Навального не увидел😂

[@thed.z.a.4658]

Instead of saying that Alexei Navalny was smarter than Putin you can say Alexei Navalny Martyr than Putin thats like check mate even if your dead.

[@clam371384]

DO NOT MAKE A WOMAN ANGRY, putin, you are going to regret this, ha.

[@zuperdee]

You obviously don’t know Russian history! Catherine The Great was the one who originally conquered Ukraine. So much for women always leading the good fight.

[@senpaiXmelody]

Haha

[@felixfelicis779]

She is happy not angry, we saw her smile

[@saidhassan4288]

@clam371384: this isn't a love story

[@clam371384]

@@felixfelicis779 clearly, you are not an english speaker

[@irakotlik]

May the force be with you ✊❤️🔥 Yulia. May he continue until full liberation of Russia as your inner fire. So many people are standing with you

[@VyacheslavP158]

She is not widow. She divorced in 2021 and changed her last name. So she mocks the west🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good job julia

[@lucyv8901]

She loves money!!!

[@renatelewis538]

NEVER GIVE UP FOR ALEXEY NAVALNI ❤

[@gost5835]

Julia gave up long time ago!

[@tomaofdonewelll7810]

Wasn't he a far right nationalist?

[@alpachino7659]

😂😂😂

[@greencoffee8224]

Free Russia!!! 🇷🇺🙏🏽 don’t underestimate her!!!

[@maxrockanski2045]

She's powerless like your comments.

[@maxrockanski2045]

@@beaconing7689 just like the American Democrat communist..tiny group inflated by propaganda. This is why there are zero protests in America. The enemy fears being exposed. Obvious sign of guilt

[@johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763]

Cry harder western guy

[@giselameunier4788]

but russia is free and save

[@minhtientran8158]

Gonzalo Lira!????

[@andytang5218]

so she is the real CIA.

[@3battle]

No

[@MrLegendra]

lol she doesn’t even register as a blip on Putins radar

[@KoinChannel]

Граждане оппозиционеры, либералы и им сочувствующие, не переживайте что вы остались без лидера. Байден вам уже назначил нового лидера оппозиции, госпожу Навальную, сказал что будет ее во всем поддерживать и финансировать. Ведь главная задача Америки, это освободить народ России от "путинского режима" и привнести в наше общество "свободу и демократию", а вовсе не ослабить Россию внутренними распрями для дальнейшего развала и расхищения... "Товарищ" Байден русский народ надеется на вас и уповает... 😆

[@GRyurik]

Если ее раньше не "траванут" ЦРУ или МИ6, чтобы в очередной раз обвинить Путина😂

[@augustomahumane7093]

Ela acabará do mesmo como o. Marido porque não está Pará os interesses da Rússia....por isso logo que o marido morreu foi ter com o patrão da casa branca

[@mavetherave100]

You go girl. Massive support from the UK xxx

[@user-xx2km7yn9s]

We pray for your safety Yula

[@useyourbrain1539]

No.

[@damirsirotic052]

She can, when the willow bears grapes.

[@sundager8735]

No, she can’t change him lol

[@LittleIggy2010]

All women think they can change a man. 99% fail

[@Arcsurvivor]

Flowers for Navalny 💐🌸🌼💐🌻🪷💐

[@helenabright5741]

🌹🌹💐💐🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷🌺🌺🏵

[@janneman1274]

I can recommend to anyone to watch the Navalny documentary. It is one of the best I have seen. Let's hope the best for the world!

[@helenabright5741]

💖

[@sofiabessonova2214]

😂😂😂😂

[@ruthnavaja899]

People power

[@helenabright5741]

💯 ♥

[@user-mt5sd2ww6o]

Yet no one remembers about American Journalist Lera tortured and killed in Uranius jail.

[@Keralaforum]

All are shedding crocodile tears. One big question: Why did he return from Berlin to Russia in 2021? He should know very well they would try to kill him again. Life is more important! Germany should have persuaded him to stay back in Germany. His children and wife are living outside Russia.

[@cheryll747]

Yes she & Alexeis mother need to fight on!!

[@SaharaPowerLove]

Yes, please!!! ❤❤❤👍👍👍

[@sharoncox3734]

God is fighting for you Yulia! 🙏🏽

[@useyourbrain1539]

How do you know this?

[@AMG-BENZ-1]

No need to bring a storybook character into this discussion.

[@larynOneka8080]

No, he isn't.

[@Ibrahim-fh6kv]

🤣😂😂

[@mistygirl3995]

Laughable. Just like he was there for all the others that the DH Putin murdered.

[@user-yp3hh1el2v]

Are you mocking?

[@mudwimp]

I think it is disgusting what that tyrannical state did to that man. To take away his freedom. Stop him from highlighting the corruption and dirty deeds of his leaders only to be punished in the most cruel and inhuman ways. But that's enough about Julian Assange. I also think it was bad the way Russia acted towards Alexei Navalny too.

[@EvidentlyFire]

😂😂😂😂😂 funniest youtube post EVER

[@MarijaLaz-td7qq]

Jeste,bio kriminalac i zato završio u zatvoru

[@tomaofdonewelll7810]

I agree. However, given Navalny's penchant for far right nationalism and anti immigration rhetoric, like referring to immigrants as cavities while dressed as a dentist that needed to be removed, I don't hold him in such high esteem as Assange

[@Dmitry29359]

:-) Just Russia didnt do anyrhing wrong toward Navalny.

[@user-yp3hh1el2v]

He is a criminal. The criminal must stay in prison.

[@Mr1234543211]

Why did Brits kill Lexaim Navalson?

[@johnm7267]

The answer is no

[@one-stopgodshop2171]

I'll help her.

[@inzhener2007]

I am a Russian who never-ever liked Navalny (because i knew him really well), but should always highlight two things: Yuliya and Alexey are an example of top-love family; he himself was a dedicated patriot.

[@thed.z.a.4658]

I think you meant to type I am a Russian who really liked Navalny not never liked Navalny?

[@europeets]

​@@thed.z.a.4658Я русский и мне никогда не нравился Навальный

[@thed.z.a.4658]

@@europeets why?

[@thed.z.a.4658]

@@europeets Navalny survived poisoning and went back to Russia knowing that he was going to be imprisoned by the person who poisoned him.

[@felixfelicis779]

Вы слушали вчерашнее обращение матери Навального к его жене Юлии ? Мать там говорит правду о ней, и ей лучше знать. Амбиции - главная характеристика этой красивой женщины.

[@XtremiTeez]

Navalny had about 3% support in Russia. This will go nowhere.

[@sofiabessonova2214]

Если не меньше.

[@Cookybaker502]

Yulia will be excellent in this job!

[@user-dt9xt3jk8p]

Юлия не имеет приехать в Россию она кто Байден предлагал бороться как Навальный

[@BodnarchukR]

The only means to seriously oppose putin's regime is to provide decent and due support to the armed forces of Ukraine

[@MR-qe9ve]

Absolutely.

[@escapetarkov3838]

Not a 100 billion dollars when we can't even afford our light bill my guy.

[@Tardenglobe2346]

What you're really saying is that you want Ukraine to be Russia again.

[@thatrandomguycommenting1261]

No it's not that's mindlessly sending a country to its death. I'm so tired of these "seen it on CNN" prophets who think funding a war will end a war somehow.

[@1luv1life47]

​@@escapetarkov3838😢🐂.....💩

[@rosievela9909]

YES !!! YES!!! YESS !!!

[@vvhitepower]

3:16 and his mom is а jеw. Of course. Can you imagine?

[@barryshaw5660]

Oh shut up

[@alternativemusicvideos]

This feels like what happened here in Philippines. The story of Ferdinand Marcos vs Ninoy Aquino. Might be true but full of controversies. Can we please stop this kind of stupidity?

[@MrTAA-cc7eu]

But she was already running around with a boyfriend

[@igor49134]

Spoiler: no

[@MichaelGoldfrad]

No, she cannot challenge him. Sadly.

[@JeffreyCC]

No she can't, stop crying and get over it

[@seren20243]

Brave woman!❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@alpachino7659]

😂😂😂

[@user-zl3pp9wu1q]

Это у навального фу фу фу 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎

[@YouTubeCensorsFreeSpeech]

Осторожно!!!

[@BeigeBrownClip-jd2pv]

Tulips go go go ! Don’t give up !

[@helenabright5741]

💖🙏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

[@LambHaldAtPrestonLaw]

Don’t ever underestimate a woman of integrity. This woman is smart. She kept herself out of the spotlight yet supported her husband and had her hands on. She holds the same power as her husband if not even more

[@marko9181]

hahaha

[@marko9181]

🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳

[@yelenashishkina8804]

Leader of Russian opposition is appointed by Whitehouse now. so nice of them. 😂

[@yogitharanachandrasekhar4263]

Good night

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

Can Angela Davis Challenge Biden?

[@saiorakaleebi440]

Еще одна лезет куда не надо🤦🏻‍♀️ Хоть бы меньше накрасилась если за мужа переживает🤥🤷‍♀️

[@senci17]

💔

[@pasindukanishka7504]

why she is living in russia,s oldest enemy

[@johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763]

Million 😂 just about 100,000 😂

[@user-dt9xt3jk8p]

Навальный украинец чужой Россия не переживайте

[@kingwata1]

Another false hope

[@LeelaIngle-sv3df]

Putin also send her to his husband

[@user-fe9fz1qu3c]

Муж умер, а жена по конференциям разьезжается . Смешно .

[@auro1986]

maybe with coca cola and pepsi in both hands and advertise for them

[@catalinacurio]

She is a very beautiful brave lady.

[@jacklinemolleli5238]

Even biden cant stand against putin, who is she??

[@sofiabessonova2214]

Байдену пора на покой, нянчить внуков!!!))))

[@PEST-rn7ip]

Yes, Yolanda aka Julia backed by Biden...it is a fantastic perspective for both sides-)

[@giselameunier4788]

CIA complice

[@PEST-rn7ip]

@@giselameunier4788 Indeed .. independent people knows that very well-) I would rather bat on MI6......

[@AdhoksajaDas]

Great joke bro

[@vaidassebeika6495]

sadly she cant attend husband funeral but for sure will attend Mr Biden's sometime soon

[@user-ge4mq4ff7s]

They can't manage

[@alexalia2737]

A classy lady who loved and supported her husband. I truly wish that Russia frees itself from the dictator who still thinks that Russia should be led Soviet style.

[@cibriosis]

but never with your soul

[@Hartleymolly]

He was on a hunger strike tho I thought?? I am just confused.

[@stephanmishkov7039]

Julia, think seven times. Traitors always fail.

[@lazeppelini123]

No she can't. End of movie. Bye

[@iluscha1]

you will forget about this women after tomorrow

[@sigaretter]

she can not save something that doesn’t exist

[@pavlinpetrov3933]

Деньги не растут на Дерева , а врать не хорошо !

[@user-ev3tm7wn6r]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@SherienElBehery]

😔