Look at these photos. On them is the path that Julia Navalny went with Alexei. Now she continues him alone
Evgeny Feldman Alexei Navalny performs at the last rally before the election of the Moscow Mayor in September 2013. Julia is in the depths of the scene, near the screen, and looks at her husband
Alexey and Julia Navalny got married in 2000-in the same year when Putin became the president of Russia. Navalny, unlike Putin, never hid his private life - and openly said that he was happy in a relationship. He often wrote about the family, called the wife of “yuly”, publicly admitted to her love. The last post on Navalny Instagram, published two days before the news of his death, is a congratulation on the day of all lovers.
Julia Navalny supported Alexei, helped him in his work, was with him in courts and rallies - however, she herself publicly performed extremely rarely. She deliberately remained in the role of the wife of a public politician. But when Alexei died, Julia promised to continue his struggle.
The story of Alexei and Julia Navalny is one of the most famous and touching stories of love in modern Russia. Therefore, our photo story about Julia is primarily a story about love, and not about politics. It is called “I love you forever” - it was precisely these words that Julia Navalny said goodbye to Alexei.
Julia Navalny's page on Instagram Julia Abrosimova and Alexei Navalny met at the resort in Turkey in 1998. Navalny talked about their acquaintance as follows: “I am sitting on the bus. And suddenly a beautiful girl approaches the bus. I look at her in all eyes. She looks at me. You have to smile. Overcoming the fear of the fact that she will snort and turn away, smile. And she smiles in response to me. And then I thought: well, I am married to you. So it happened. " They got married two years later. They had a daughter Daria and son Zakhar. Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Navalny became a popular figure in the late 2000s, talking about theft in the state corporations. But in the universally recognized leader of the Russian opposition movement, he turned during the protests of 2011-2012. Then Navalny received his first “day”. In this picture, he and his wife and son Zakhar on May 24, 2012, after the second arrest for 15 days. Julia did not hide from the children that Alexey was engaged in politics and from time to time gets into prison because of this. According to her, their daughter Dasha in kindergarten spoke about her father’s work as follows: “Dad works at rallies.” Evgeny Feldman The case of Kirovles is the first criminal case against Navalny. According to the prosecution, in 2009, as an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, Navalny convinced the director of Kirovles to conclude an unprofitable agreement for the supply of forest with his friend Peter Officerov. The Leninsky District Court of Kirov began to consider the case in April 2013. In this photo, Julia Navalny at the first meeting April 24, 2013. Shortly before that, she answered what she would do if Alexey received a real term: “I will wait, I will try to help. Of course I will wait. " Evgeny Feldman “They usually expect me to say something special or I will chant a new slogan. I have not come up with a new slogan today. But he came to the stage with his wife, ”so Navalny began his performance at a rally on May 6, 2013. It was dedicated to the anniversary of the strict acceleration of the campaign of Bolotnaya Square, which ended with a “swamp business”. Julia first stood on stage behind him. Evgeny Feldman Alexei and Julia Navalny after the next meeting of the court in the Kirovles case on May 16, 2013. In early July, the prosecution party will ask for the sentence of Navalny and Pyotr Officer to the real term - six and five years of the colony, respectively. The court will appoint a sentence on July 18. Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / Leta July 18, 2013. The Leninsky District Court of Kirov said Navalny to five years in the colony, Officer - by four years. The judge decided to take them into custody immediately. In this picture, Alexei hugs his wife goodbye. Julia did not cry in the courtroom. “These bastards will never see our tears,” she said . Evgeny Feldman July 19, 2013. The day after the sentence, the Kirov Regional Court - at the request of the prosecutor’s office (!) - lets Navalny and Officer under the subscription of the bankruptcy failure before the sentence entered into force. Navalny is released from the cage, and he rushes to hug his wife. Grigory Dukor / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta consideration of the Kirovles case coincided with the campaign of the Moscow Mayor. July 17, 2013 - the day before the verdict of the district court in Kirov - Navalny was registered as a candidate for elections. In this photo taken on July 20, 2013, Alexei, along with Julia, stands in the crowd of his supporters at the Yaroslavl station after returning from Kirov to Moscow. Evgeny Feldman September 6, 2013. One of the rare public speeches by Julia Navalny. She makes a speech at the final rally before the election of the mayor of Moscow. He is noticeably worried and peeping at the Telesufler (he is in the photo on the right). He says, as due to the political activity of Alexei, they put pressure on his whole family, but this will not stop him. “If someone in power perceives families as a vulnerable place, then they are mistaken. Family is the power of every normal person, and even more so a real policy, ”says Navalny. Evgeny Feldman The end of the election rally on September 6, 2013. Navalny stand in the photo zone in front of the stage. Many years later, Julia will say about her life with Alexei like this: “Everything happened progressively - his coming to politics, investigation, courts. I went this path with him, and there was no sudden jump into the void - rather a gradual understanding. The main thing is that I believe in what Alexei does, and ... not that I am not at all afraid. But he sometimes asks me: “Are you scared?” I answer: “Well, you know what kind of coward I am.” And he says: “You are brave, because you are invisible that you are a coward.” Evgeny Feldman Julia and Alexei, along with the children, go to vote in the elections of the Moscow Mayor on September 8, 2013. Navalny will receive more than 27% of the vote and take second place. Sergei Sobyanin will win with an official result of 51%. The page of Alexei Navalny on Instagram posted this photo on Instagram in early October 2013. Under it there are many comments that Alexey and Julia are a beautiful couple. Navalny admitted that his pictures with his wife collect more likes than photos without her. Evgeny Feldman on October 16, 2013, the Kirov Regional Court considered the appeal for the verdict in the Kirovles case. Navalny and Officer were left the same deadlines (five years and four years, respectively), but replaced real imprisonment with conditional. In this picture, Alexei and Julia are talking in the corridor of the court. Evgeny Feldman Julia Navalny in a court in the “Swamp case” on February 5, 2014. This case appeared after a rally on Bolotnaya Square in May 2012, rigidly dispersed by the police. More than 30 people became defendants, many of them received real terms. The case made a depressing impression on the opposition - but the worst was still ahead. Evgeny Feldman December 15, 2014. One of the last meetings in the case of Yves Rocher. It was aroused in 2012 and became the second criminal case against Navalny. According to the prosecution , Alexei and his brother Oleg, who worked as the deputy director of one of the branches of the Russian Post, provided the Cosmetic Company of Yves Rocher services for the transportation of goods at an inflated price. On December 30, 2014, the court sentenced Oleg Navalny to three and a half years of real imprisonment, and Alexei Navalny - to three and a half years. It is this conditional term that will be the reason for the imprisonment of Navalny into custody in 2021. Evgeny Feldman on March 1, 2015, the Russian opposition planned to hold the march “Vesna” in Moscow against the war in the east of Ukraine. On February 20, Navalny received the next 15 days, supposedly for illegally campaigned people to take part in the march. And on February 27, Boris Nemtsov was killed. He acted as one of the applicants of the action, and the march “Spring” turned into Nemtsov’s memorial march. Julia Navalny came to him alone. Commenting on her political views, her husband said that she was “more radical” than him. Julia answered this: “Perhaps the fact is that I am not a politician and express my position at home, and not in public space. There I would be more careful. " Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta in the spring of 2015, the Federal Penitentiary Service demanded to replace a conditional period with a real term with a real in the Kirovles case. The department said that the politician violated the regime of serving a conditional term-in particular, due to the fact that he was planted several times on the "day". Navalny came to the court with things, admitting that he would really replace the conditional punishment for the real (in this picture he and Julia in court on April 23, 2015). But they did not plant him in the case of Kirovles. This will happen six years later, and the occasion will also be a complaint of the Federal Penitentiary Service of violation of the condition of the conditional term, but already in the case of Yves Rocher. Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Julia Navalny is searched in the Leninsky District Court of Kirov on February 8, 2017. This court repeatedly considered the Kirovles case after the ECHR admitted that Navalny and Officer was convicted of actions that could not be distinguished from ordinary business - and obliged Russia to pay them more than 80 thousand euros. The verdict was canceled, and the case of Kirovles was sent for a new consideration. However, even after him the verdict has not changed: five years conditionally for Navalny and four years conditionally for Officer. Evgeny Feldman in 2016 Navalny announced that he was going to participate in the 2018 presidential election. As part of the election campaign in the Russian regions, the headquarters of the policy began to open - 81 headquarters worked at the peak. In this picture taken on February 24, 2017, Alexei and Julia Navalny walk around Yekaterinburg, where they came to the opening of the local headquarters. A tour of the city is conducted by Leonid Volkov - the ally of Navalny, who was born and lived in Yekaterinburg. Evgeny Feldman February 25, 2017. Julia corrects the tie to Alexei before the press conference on the occasion of the opening of the headquarters in Yekaterinburg. After the birth of children, she, an economist by education, left her job - but helped her husband. “Navalny as a politician consists of two people: Julia and Alexei. She is his editor -in -chief, she reads everything that he writes before published, ” said Evgeny Albats, editor -in -chief of The New Times. Evgeny Feldman in the spring of 2017, against the backdrop of Navalny's presidential campaign, politics was doused with greening twice in five weeks. The consequences of the second attack turned out to be serious: Zelenka hit Navalny in the eye, he had to contact the doctors. In this picture, Julia takes care of her husband in the office of the Fund for Combating Corruption after the second attack. Familiar Navalny described Julia as a closed and restrained person who is not inclined to forgive. According to them, she perceived the pressure of the authorities calmly and with humor, but it made it tougher. Evgeny Feldman on May 14, 2017 in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue, a rally was held against the adoption of a law on renovation. Alexey and Julia came there with her son. Navalny, as he himself told , was asked to speak at a rally. But near the stage of him with his wife and son, "30 riot police were blocked." As a result, the family was taken out of the rally. Evgeny Feldman “I did not marry a promising lawyer and did not marry an opposition leader. I married a young man named Alexei. I married a person, with whom it was clear from the very beginning that cool turns were possible, ” said Julia Navalny about her husband in 2013. This picture was taken four years later, then Alexei appears to the volunteers of his campaign headquarters in Moscow. Wife behind him. Evgeny Feldman at the end of August 2017 in a boarding house near Moscow was held “Stabikon” - a training for coordinators of the regional headquarters of Navalny. The politician made a program speech there. In this picture, Alexei and Julia behind the stage during the rehearsal of his speech. The page of Alexei Navalny on Instagram for the 2018 presidential election was not allowed by Navalny: he refused to register him as a candidate, citing an outstanding criminal record in the Kirovles case. In 2019, Navalny focused on the elections to the Moscow City Duma, which ended with the success of his Smart Voting project. Julia Navalny wrote that she also voted for the candidate of Smart Voting, coming to the site for the first time since 2013. The politician published this photo with his wife six months before the election, signing him like this: “Love is ... you, she and ❤️ Sharma❤️”. The page of Alexei Navalny on Instagram on July 17, 2020, the security forces came with searches for the “Foundation for Combating Corruption” and the Navalny apartment. In addition, on that day, politics was questioned in the case of slander in the veteran of the Great Patriotic War from the agitation video RT on amendments to the Constitution (in this case of Navalny they will be fined 850 thousand rubles). In this picture , Alexei and Julia are waiting for the investigators to finish the search for the car of Julia. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / Leta August 21, 2020. Julia Navalny and FBK Director Ivan Zhdanov near the hospital in Omsk. They delivered Navalny there after on August 20 he felt bad on an airplane. Family and associates achieved its export to Germany - although initially the doctors refused to give permission to do this, supposedly because transportation threatens Navalny’s life. Later it will become known that politics was poisoned by the Novice with combat poison and that the FSBofficers did it. Navalny will talk about this difficult period as follows: “Do not give up and not be blabbed, not to regret yourself. Just do what it should, and go forward, not paying attention to the little things, tips and other people's opinions. ” The page of Alexei Navalny on Instagram Navalny recovered three weeks after poisoning. Soon, a big post appeared on his Instagram about how, after leaving the coma, not quite in consciousness, he was waiting for his wife's parishes in the Berlin clinic “Shary”. The post ended with the words: "Julia, you saved me, and let it be entered into neurobiology textbooks." She herself will later say that, visiting him, she retold the news and put “their songs” - for example, the Perfect Day of the Duran Duran or “You look so outrageous” group “Kino”. Polina Ivanova / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Alexey and Julia on board the plane, which brought them from Germany to Russia on January 17, 2021. Navalny decided to return to the country, despite the fact that he knew: he would be imprisoned. Julia also knew that. The investigator of Christ Grozhev recalled her words: “I think there is no chance that they will let him go. He will be in prison for a long time. ” After landing the aircraft in Russia, Navalny was already detained at passport control, and soon they tried - the conditional term in the Yves Rocher case was replaced by the real one. Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix / Leta January 27, 2021. A search in the apartment of Julia and Alexei Navalny. It passes after the first from a series of rallies in support of Navalny. Due to these protests, criminal cases opened against more than 180 people throughout Russia. Among the defendants was the brother of Alexei Navalny Oleg. He received a year in the so -called “sanitary case” (at first the punishment was conditional, then he was replaced with real, but by that time Oleg Navalny had already left Russia). Julia Navalny's page on Instagram Julia Navalny on the second of the Freedom Navalny shares, which took place on January 31, 2021. On this day, a record number of people were detained - more than five and a half thousand. Among the detainees was Julia. She was then fined 20 thousand rubles for violating the rules of rallies. The Moscow City Court / AP / Scanpix / Leta on February 2, 2021, at the request of the FSIN, replaced Navalny with a suspended sentence with the real in the case of Yves Rocher. Standing in a cage, the politician folded his hands in the shape of a heart (obviously looking at his wife) - and this fell into the broadcast of the meeting. And on February 14, 2021, a joint photo with Julia appeared on Navalny Instagram, which was signed as follows: “I love you. And I am joking all the jokes in the courts so that you laugh in the front row. ” Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / Leta people applaud Julia Navalny to promotions in support of her husband on April 21, 2021 in Moscow. Navalny's associates called to reach the action in connection with the deterioration of his health in the colony and the refusal to allow independent doctors to him. The politician himself, in protest, held a hunger strike for 24 days. At this time, Navalny went on a date with her husband, after which she wrote : “I never saw the skin so that the skin was tightened, but I know that he was not going to give up.” Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta February 15, 2022. Alexey and Julia Navalny at a visiting meeting on fraud and disrespect for court (these two cases went to court after the return of the politician to Russia and his imprisonment). The court took place right in the colony in Pokrov, where Navalny was then. Julia publicly demanded to let her into the meeting, which she called the "unscrupulous court." This was her last meeting with her husband. Chris Pizzello / AP / Scanpix / Leta Provide the Oscar for the documentary “Navalny” on March 12, 2023. In addition to members of the film crew, Julia Navalny with children entered the stage. Soon after the ceremony, she (once again) will say in an interview that she is not going to engage in politics herself: “I made a different choice: my husband is an oppositionist, he is in prison, and I support him and draw attention to the situation in which he ended up.” KAI Pfaffenbach / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta February 16, 2024. The day was announced about the death of Navalny. Julia spoke at the Munich Security Conference, starting my speech like this: “I thought for a long time whether I should go here or immediately fly to my children. But then I thought what Alexey would do in my place. And I am sure that he would be here. He would be on this scene. " Julia said that Putin and his environment will be responsible for what they "did with our country, with my family and with my husband." The hall applauded her standing. Страница Юлии Навальной в Instagram «Милая моя, девочка. Я же прилетела тебя обнять и поддержать, а ты сидишь и поддерживаешь меня. Такая сильная, смелая и стойкая. Мы обязательно со всем справимся, родная. Как хорошо, что ты рядом. Люблю», — написала Юлия Навальная в инстаграме 22 февраля, выложив фото с дочерью. Дарья Навальная, которая учится в США, в последние годы тоже привлекала внимание к судьбе своего отца, выступая публично и публикуя колонки в западных изданиях. The White House 22 февраля 2024 года Юлия и Дарья Навальные встретились с президентом США Джо Байденом (который возложил ответственность за смерть Навального на Путина). На следующий день США ввели в отношении России новые санкции из-за смерти оппозиционного политика. Ronald Wittek / EPA / Scanpix / LETA После смерти мужа Юлия Навальная обещала продолжить его борьбу. 28 февраля во время выступления в Европарламенте (на фото) она назвала Путина «главарем организованной преступной группировки». Она призывает Запад не признавать результаты президентских выборов в РФ, а россиян — выйти на акцию «Полдень против Путина», которую незадолго до смерти поддержал Алексей. СМИ и эксперты обсуждают, сможет ли Навальная стать лидером российской оппозиции. Возможно, сама она хочет лишь остаться женой своего мужа — и продолжать делать то, что от нее требует эта роль. «Я не знаю, как жить без тебя, но я постараюсь так, чтобы ты там, наверху, радовался за меня и гордился мной», — обратилась она к Алексею в день его похорон.
