As his government unveiled new penalties on Russia in response to the demise of the Kremlin opposition leader, President Joe Biden met in private and had an emotional conversation with Alexei Navalny‘s wife and daughter on Thursday in California.
The meeting took place at a hotel in San Francisco at the same time as the White House supported the mother of Navalny in her efforts to recover her son’s remains, which Russian authorities had refused to give up since he passed away in an Arctic jail.
The 47-year-old, who was President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal adversary, was killed, according to Navalny’s crew. The White House shared photographs of Biden with Stanford University student Dasha, and her mother Yulia Navalnaya. Biden was seen leaning forward and holding her.
After seeing Navalny’s wife Yulia and daughter Dasha, Biden remarked, “It’s amazing how his wife and daughter are emulating that. He was a man of incredible courage.” “I know that we’re going to be announcing the sanctions against Putin, who is responsible for his death, tomorrow.”
In California, Biden Meets Navalny’s Family
The White House supported Navalny’s mother in her battle to recover her son’s remains, which Russian authorities have refused to release days after he passed away in an Arctic jail, during the visit to a San Francisco hotel. In photos supplied by the White House, Biden was seen bending forward and giving an embrace to Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Navalny, while he chatted with her and her daughter Dasha, a Stanford University student.
The president is sometimes referred to as America’s Consoler-in-Chief because of his history of loss. His first wife and newborn daughter perished in a car accident in 1972, and his son Beau passed away from cancer in 2015. He said that following the encounter, the two women were modeling themselves after Navalny’s “incredible courage.” He added Yulia Navalnaya is “not giving up,” vowing to carry on her late husband’s resistance to Putin. However, the US and its allies have imposed sanctions on Russia since its invasion in February 2022. Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent in 2020 and jailed in 2021 for 19 years on extremism charges.
Biden warns of sanctions
Speaking with Alexei Navalny’s wife and daughter on Thursday, US President Joe Biden described the Russian opposition leader as “a man of incredible courage” who passed away in a prison camp last week. In response to Navalny’s passing, Biden told reporters in California that Washington intends to apply a broad range of penalties on Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin.
Victoria Nuland, under Secretary of State, announced that hundreds of sanctions will be unveiled in the coming days, targeting those responsible for Navalny’s death. Most of these measures will target Putin’s war machine and close existing sanctions regimes.
The measures are timed to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. President Biden expressed his condolences to Navalny’s family and admiration for his extraordinary courage and legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia.
Russian officers have buried Navalny in secret, claims his mother
Lyudmila Navalny, the mother of Alexei Navalny, declared on Thursday that she would not consent to Russian investigators’ plans to bury her son in secret without a ceremony. “They want this to be carried out in secrecy, without any goodbyes. They wish to take me to a new grave at the edge of a cemetery and declare, “This is your son’s resting place.” In a YouTube video, she remarked, “I disagree with this. The Russian investigators did not respond right away.
The Kremlin has denied allegations of murdering Navalny, citing opposition politics, according to a death certificate provided by his mother, who was presented with the body. The individual claims that the authorities are blackmailing them, setting conditions on the location, timing, and manner of Alexei’s burial, which they believe is illegal and violates the law.
Navalny’s mother recorded a video due to threats and threats of a secret funeral. She demanded the immediate return of her son’s body, stating that time is not on her side as corpses decompose. She emphasized that she doesn’t want special conditions and demands everything be done according to the law.
