An appeal by Yulia Navalnaya. Alexei's work will continue. The fight for a free Russia will not stop

The Scotsman

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00:00 Hi, this is Yulia Navalnaya.

00:03 Today, for the first time on this channel, I want to address you.

00:08 I shouldn't have been in this place.

00:11 I shouldn't have recorded this video.

00:14 There should be another person in my place.

00:17 But this person was killed by Vladimir Putin.

00:21 Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny.

00:26 Putin killed the father of my children.

00:29 Putin took away the most precious thing I had,

00:33 the closest and most beloved person.

00:36 But Putin also took away Navalny from you.

00:39 Somewhere in a colony in the Far North,

00:42 beyond the Arctic Circle, in the eternal winter,

00:45 Putin did not just kill Alexei Navalny.

00:48 He, along with him, wanted to kill our hope,

00:52 our freedom, our future.

00:55 To destroy and bring to nothing the best evidence

00:59 that Russia can be different.

01:02 That we are strong, that we are brave,

01:05 that we believe and fight desperately and want to live differently.

01:09 Together we will turn our country into a beautiful Russia of the future.

01:23 All these years I have been with Alexei.

01:27 Elections, rallies, house arrest,

01:30 searches, detention, prisons,

01:33 poisoning, rallies again,

01:36 arrests and prisons again.

01:39 Here is our last meeting with him in mid-February 2022.

01:46 Our last photo.

01:48 Exactly two years later, Putin will kill him.

01:53 All these years I have been with Alexei.

01:56 I was happy to be with him and support him.

02:00 But today I want to be with you.

02:03 Because I know that you have lost no less than I have.

02:07 Alexei died in a colony after three years of torture and torture.

02:12 He didn't just sit, he didn't sit like others sit.

02:16 He was tortured, he was kept in a container,

02:19 in a concrete box.

02:21 Please just imagine.

02:23 This room is 6 or 7 square meters.

02:26 There is nothing in it except a stool,

02:29 sink, holes in the floor instead of a toilet,

02:32 and a bed that is fastened to the wall so that you cannot lie on it.

02:37 A mug, a book, one, and a toothbrush.

02:42 He had nothing else.

02:44 For hundreds of days.

02:46 They mocked him, cut him off from the world,

02:49 did not give him a pen and paper to write a letter to me or our children.

02:55 He was starved for three years.

02:59 And he did not give up.

03:01 He supported us all the time,

03:04 cheered us up, laughed, joked, inspired.

03:07 For a split second, he did not doubt what he was fighting for and what he was suffering for.

03:14 My husband could not be broken.

03:17 And that is exactly why Putin killed him.

03:20 Shamefully, cowardly, not daring to look him in the eye or just say his name.

03:27 And just as cowardly and meanly, they are now hiding his body,

03:31 not showing it to his mother, not giving it to her.

03:35 And they are sorry to lie and wait for the traces of another Putin's newbie to disappear.

03:42 We know why Putin killed Alexei three days ago.

03:48 We will tell you about it soon.

03:50 We will definitely find out who exactly and how exactly committed this crime.

03:57 We will name the names and show the faces.

04:00 But the main thing we can do for Alexei and for ourselves is to continue to fight.

04:07 More desperate, more furious than before.

04:10 I know, it seems that it is no longer possible, but we need more.

04:15 To get together in one strong fist and hit this mad regime,

04:21 Putin, his friends, the bandits in the shoulders, the thieves and the murderers who crippled our country.

04:29 I know, I feel that you are torn apart by part of the question.

04:34 But why did he return?

04:36 Why did he voluntarily throw himself into the hands of those who had almost killed him once?

04:42 Why such a sacrifice?

04:44 After all, he could have lived in peace, taken care of himself, his family.

04:48 He could not speak, not investigate, not speak and not fight.

04:53 But he could not.

04:55 Alexei loved Russia most of all in the world.

04:59 He loved our country, you.

05:02 He believed in us, in our strength, in our future, in what we are worthy of the best.

05:09 He did not believe in words, but in deeds.

05:12 So deeply and sincerely that he was ready to give his life for it.

05:18 And his great love.

05:20 We have enough to continue his cause.

05:23 As long as it takes.

05:26 As furious and as brave as Alexei did.

05:30 I have no other country.

05:33 I have nowhere to retreat.

05:35 There is no other country.

05:37 There is no other Moscow.

05:39 There is no other family.

05:41 There is no other people except you.

05:43 Everyone is thinking now.

05:45 But where to take this strength?

05:47 How to live on?

05:49 This is where we will take strength.

05:51 In his memory.

05:53 In his ideas.

05:55 In his thoughts.

05:57 In his unbreakable faith in us.

05:59 I will look for my strength in this.

06:02 After killing Alexei, Putin killed half of me.

06:06 Half of my heart.

06:08 And half of my soul.

06:10 But I have the other half left.

06:13 And she tells me that I have no right to give up.

06:17 Do not be silent.

06:19 Resist.

06:20 Go out into the streets.

06:22 No one but us will protect us.

06:25 And there are so many of us.

06:27 We will achieve something.

06:29 We will achieve it.

06:31 I will continue the case of Alexei Navalny.

06:34 I will continue to fight for our country.

06:37 And I urge you to stand by me.

06:40 To share not only grief and endless pain.

06:43 Which has enveloped us and does not let us go.

06:46 I ask you to share with me the rage.

06:49 Rage, anger, hatred of those who dared to kill our future.

06:55 I appeal to you in the words of Alexei, in which I very much believe.

07:00 It is not a shame to do little.

07:02 It is a shame not to do anything.

07:04 It is a shame to let yourself be intimidated.

07:07 We need to use every opportunity.

07:11 To fight against war.

07:13 Against corruption.

07:15 Against injustice.

07:17 To fight for fair elections and freedom of speech.

07:21 To fight to return our country to ourselves.

07:25 I understand what I am fighting for.

07:28 I am fighting for a new future.

07:32 For my family, for my children.

07:35 Russia is free, peaceful, happy.

07:39 Beautiful Russia of the future.

07:41 My husband dreamed of it so much.

07:44 This is what we need.

07:46 I want to live in such a Russia.

07:48 I want our children to live in it with Alexei.

07:52 I want to build it with you.

07:55 Just as Alexei Navalny imagined it.

07:59 Full dignity, justice and love.

08:03 Only in this way and no other way.

08:06 The unthinkable sacrifice that he brought can become worthwhile.

08:13 Fight and do not give up.

08:16 I am not afraid and you are not afraid of anything.

08:20 We are strong.

08:22 All you need to celebrate evil is the inaction of good people.

08:27 Therefore, you should not be inactive.

08:31 The Russian Federation is a non-profit organization.

08:34 We are not responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.

08:37 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.

08:40 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.

08:43 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.

08:46 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.

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