Russia wants to arrest Alexei Navalny's widow after resistance leader died in prison
Yulia Navalny is being charged with running an "extremist" organization as she accuses Vladimir Putin of murder.
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A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of former political opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
The court accused Navalnaya of "participating in an extremist community," according to the New York Times.
Navalny died in prison earlier this year in an Arctic penal colony, where he was imprisoned after the court convicted him of extremist activity.
Navalny ran for office in Russia as a reformist, accusing leader Vladimir Putin of corruption.
"Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal. His place is in prison, and not somewhere in The Hague, in a cozy cell with a TV, but in Russia - in the same colony and the same 2 by 3 meter cell in which he killed Alexei," Yulia Navalnaya wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a translation provided by the platform.
Yulia Navalnaya has championed her deceased husband's causes and has repeatedly accused Putin of murdering her husband. She has led his Anti-Corruption Foundation, which operates out of Lithuania and is considered "extremist" by Russian authorities, according to the Times.
Navalnaya has also been working on her husband's memoir, which is due to be published in August.
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