Yulia Navalnaïa (47), widow of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, declared in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she was ready to take up the torch. Sworn enemy of the master of the Kremlin, he was serving a 19-year prison sentence for “extremism” “We must unite to strike at one blow Putin, his friends, the thugs in epaulettes, the courtiers and the killers who want to paralyze our country,” she said.