Yulia Navalnaya is addressing the European Parliament following the death of her husband, Alexei Navalny, in a Siberian prison on 16 February.
“If you really want to defeat Putin, you have to become an innovator,” she says in Strasbourg. “And you have to stop being boring.”
She says Alexei Navalny “was the opposite of everything boring.”
Navalny, 47, was a political activist in Russia and a long-time, high-profile critic of President Vladimir Putin.
He will be buried in Moscow on Friday, a spokesperson confirms, after his team struggled to find a funeral home.
Navalnaya has vowed to continue her husband’s work to fight for a “free Russia.”
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