Russia: Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has been invited to Brussels today, to join the Foreign Affairs Council of EU officials.
She is set to meet ministers as they discuss further sanctions against Russia.
On the day his death was announced, Navalnya took to the stage at an international security conference in Munich, receiving a standing ovation.
She addressed leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and British Foreign Minister David Cameron:
“I thought for a long time if I should come out here or immediately fly to my children, but then I thought what Alexei would do in my place,” she said. “And I’m sure he would be here, he would be on this stage.”
She added that Putin and his circle “will be punished for everything they have done to our country, to my family and to my husband”.
