Greta Privitera (Corriere della Sera)

Updated Friday, February 16, 2024-18:48

  • Russia Moscow announces the death in prison of Alexei Navalny, a symbol of opposition to Putin

  • Reactions "The European Union considers the Russian regime solely responsible" for Navalny's death

  • Reactions Navalny's wife: "Putin and his supporters must not be allowed to go unpunished"

Her Instagram biography:

Dasha Navalnaya, Stanford University, daughter of Alexei Navalny

. Her name, the university she attends, and her father, the man she has always been proud of:

the brave Russian dissident

who never stopped fighting against Vladimir Putin's dictatorship.

In the social profile in which he recounts his 23 years in the United States and what it means to have the same last name as the man most hated by the 'tsar', there is still no post giving the saddest of news,

the death of his father in prison.

The last video published was in December, when Dasha addressed Anderson Cooper, one of CNN's most important journalists: "I haven't heard from Dad in days. We know that he passed out in his cell and that they connected him to an IV. "But who knows what it contained, even if it was just water. Putin has just declared that he is running for election again and probably wants to silence my father, who rants against him and his war in Ukraine whenever he can."

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After three weeks of silence, Alexei Navalny reappeared

in a penal colony in the Arctic region

, in northern Russia, with a very ironic message delivered by his team.

Dasha looks like him. Very blonde hair and that Navalny smile. Her Instagram profile is a family album where she shares memories of when they were all together, free. There is a video of the wedding anniversary of his father and her mother, Julija Navalnaja. They hug on a terrace: "Love is when every day you want to dance together to old songs. Love is supporting each other in court. Parents, thank you for teaching me to love."

There are photos of her as a child, photos of her with her father, her head resting on his shoulders: "Happy birthday, dad. I love you and miss you so much every day. You are my hero." And again: "I would like to be by the sea again, chatting with dad."

Dasha and Alexei Navalny, in an image shared in 2019

Since 2021, since

Alex Navalny's return to Russia after his poisoning and then his arrest

, Dasha has decided that those battles are also hers. On social media, on television, at the university, through Navalny's team, she has shared messages and asked the international community for help "They don't feed him"; "they don't give him snow boots"; "They keep him in inhumane conditions," she denounced.

The young daughter has become a brave voice opposing the injustices suffered by her father and other Russian dissidents forced to go to prison. It doesn't matter that she's in her twenties, an age when she might be worrying about the next college course or the next trip. "Growing up in a family in which the value of justice and freedom is always above everything - even your own personal freedom - teaches you to live bravely," she explains.

"My father's dream is for Russia to become a free country, with open elections, freedom of the press and to be part of the democratic community," he stressed. Freedom and courage are the words that run through this story, and they also seem to run through Dasha's veins.