“I will try to make you proud of yourself from there”: Yulia Navalnaya pays farewell tribute to her husband Alexei Navalny

A poignant message of love. Alexei Navalny was buried this Friday, March 1, in a Moscow cemetery in the presence of thousands of his supporters who came to pay tribute to the Kremlin’s chief detractor, and his wife paid her last respects to him at the funeral. social media.

After this widely publicized and closely monitored funeral, Yulia Navalnaya published a long text on her Instagram account. “Thank you for these 26 years of absolute happiness. Yes, even in these last three years of happiness,” she begins, referring to the three years during which her husband was imprisoned by the Kremlin.

“For love, for always supporting me, for making me laugh even in prison, for always thinking about me,” she continues in this long text, accompanied by a video showing many shared moments, public and private, between two lovers.

“I don’t know how to live without you, but I will try to make you happy and proud of me from there. I don’t know if I can handle it or not, but I’ll try. One day we will definitely see each other again. I have so many untold stories for you, and I have so many songs recorded on my phone, stupid and funny, in general and, to be honest, terrible songs, but they are about us, and I really wanted to see you, listen to them, laugh, and then hug me ” she wrote before ending with: “I love you forever, rest in peace. »

“No war!” “, “We won’t forget you!” »

Many of Navalny’s supporters attended the funeral, some with flowers, and many were seen crying or on the verge of tears. Many of them chanted “No to war!” “, “We won’t forget you!” ” or even “We will not forgive.” In the temple, the body of Alexei Navalny, covered with dozens of red and white flowers, was shown to the public for the first time, while those present held candles, an AFP journalist noted.

Kremlin critic and charismatic anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny died on February 16 at the age of 47 in a Russian penal colony in the Arctic under circumstances that remain unclear. His associates Yulia Navalnaya and the West blame Vladimir Putin for his death, but the Kremlin denies this.

After delaying the transfer of the deceased’s remains to his relatives, Russian authorities finally did so last weekend, allowing the funeral to take place.