Yulia Navalnaya Collects DW's Freedom of Speech Award, Vows to Continue Anti-Corruption Efforts

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Kremlin critic Yulia Navalnaya, the winner of DW's Freedom of Speech Award, has collected her prize in a special ceremony. Speaking at the event in Berlin, Navalnaya — who is the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny — said the work of their Anti-Corruption Foundation would continue despite her husband's passing.      #OIDW #DWVideos #YuliaNavalnaya #FreedomOfSpeechAward #AlexeiNavalny #AntiCorruption #DWPrize #BerlinCeremony #RussianOpposition #KremlinCritic #HumanRights #SpeechFreedom #NavalnyFoundation #PoliticalActivism #AwardWinner #OppositionLeader #FightCorruption                 ~HT.178~PR.152~ED.194~GR.125~

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00:00The new face of Russia's opposition, Yulia Navalnaya, accepting the DW Freedom of Speech

00:07Award in Berlin, she reminded everyone of her late husband's legacy.

00:14Freedom of speech is not a weakness, but strength.

00:19Alexei proved this with his entire life and work in a country where it seemed there was

00:26no space left for public politics, showing how the truth makes even an all-powerful

00:35dictator tremble with fear.

00:39Her husband, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's outspoken adversary, died in February in an

00:45Arctic penal colony under unexplained circumstances.

00:50Earlier this week, a large crowd attended a memorial concert in Berlin on what would

00:54have been his 48th birthday, with his widow taking to the stage at the very end.

01:06A long-time behind-the-scenes supporter of her husband's anti-corruption efforts, Yulia

01:11Navalnaya was his closest political advisor, accompanying him to court and visiting him

01:17in prison regularly.

01:19It was following her very public campaign that in 2020, her ailing husband was allowed

01:24to be flown from Russia to Germany to be treated for what was later diagnosed as poisoning.

01:31When Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, he was immediately arrested.

01:36Yulia Navalnaya was detained and the couple were separated for good.

01:42Following his death, Navalnaya vowed to continue her husband's fight against Putin.

01:53The DW Freedom of Speech Award also honors the work of the Anti-Corruption Foundation

01:57established by Navalny.

01:59On the one hand, it fills us with hope that there are courageous people in Russia outside

02:07Putin's system.

02:09But this positive realization also serves as a warning.

02:12We must not condemn Russia per se, but Putin's politics.

02:20Because Putin is not Russia.

02:23And Russia is not Putin.

02:26Yulia Navalnaya and the Anti-Corruption Foundation are proof of that.

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