Yulia Navalnaya hails Russian prisoner swap while also admitting ‘deep sorrow’
Yulia Navalnaya. Photo: YouTube screenshot Yulia Navalnaya. Photo: YouTube screenshot Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny, released a video on Thursday in which she shared her thoughts on last week’s prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. While Navalnaya celebrated the release of 16 mainly political prisoners by Moscow in the swap, she also expressed deep sadness that her husband, Alexey Navalny, had not been able to be among them.