"There is no point in negotiations with Putin." Julia Navalny spoke at the Munich Security Conference

Julia Navalny, the widow of the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, made a speech at the Munich Security Conference.

Her performance took place as part of the discussion "Russian repression within the country and abroad." She expressed the opinion that the Western approaches to resolve the conflict in Ukraine should be based on two principles - “Putin will leave soon” and “Russia will be free”.

“There is no point in negotiations with Putin. Even if you decide to do this, he will lie, betray, change the rules of the game at the last moment, ”said the widow of the Russian opposition.

Commenting on the negotiations of the US President Donald Trump with the Kremlin, Navalny emphasized that “the war can stop for a year or two, but during this time Putin will only become stronger and two years later it will begin everything again. That is, if he remains in power, he will violate the agreement. And if there is no remaining, then this agreement will not make sense. ”

Navalny also recalled that during the previous Munich conference in 2024, her husband died in a colony. On that day, going to the rostrum of the Munich conference, she urged "the entire world community rally and defeat evil, defeat the terrifying regime in Russia." It was on that day, according to Navalny, that its path of politics began.

She also recalled another conference in 2007, when Putin spoke in Munich.

“He stood here and openly proclaimed confrontation with the West. But over the past time, no strategy for relations with the Russia that wants to be part of Europe, fights dictatorship, confronts the war has been developed. With Russia, which is now in prison, ”Navalny said, after which he urged not to forget about the supporters of democratic Russia who remain in the country.

At the same session, the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya performed. Having called Belarus a landfill for the development of repression technologies, she talked about the fact that for political reasons, 12-15 people were delayed daily. After that, she remembered her wife Sergei Tikhanovsky, who has been in prison since May 2020 and who still has not been communications.

“I don’t know if he is, where he is. Children continue to write letters to dad, ”said Tikhanovskaya.

In addition, she expressed gratitude to the Trump administration for the efforts, which led the day before to the liberation of Minsk three political prisoners.

“This was achieved thanks to the close coordination of the American side and the democratic opposition forces. Not because of some humanity Lukashenko, but because of pressure on his regime, ”Tikhanovskaya noted.