Biden meets with Navalny’s wife and daughter
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U.S. President Joe Biden met with Yulia and Daria Navalny, the wife and daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who recently died in a Russian prison in Siberia, the White House said on Feb. 22.
The White House stated that Biden discussed with Navalny's family "serious" U.S. sanctions against Russia, which it will announce on Feb. 23. The sanctions will be "in response to Aleksey’s death, Russia’s repression and aggression, and its brutal and illegal war in Ukraine."
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“The President expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny’s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to everyone,” the statement reads.
“The President emphasized that Aleksey’s legacy will carry on through people across Russia and around the world mourning his loss and fighting for freedom, democracy, and human rights.”
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Navalny's mother, Lyudmila, previously stated that she had finally been allowed to see her son's body and accused Russian authorities of coercing her into agreeing to a secret burial.
Russian authorities announced the death of 47-year-old opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Feb. 16. Since the end of 2023, he had been serving his sentence in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Far North.
The politician spent the last three years in prison. He was arrested immediately after returning to Russia from Germany in January 2021, where he was treated after being poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in the fall of 2020. According to an investigation by The Insider, Bellingcat, and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel, a special unit of the FSB’s Criminal Investigation Department played a key role in Navalny’s poisoning.
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