“If we keep silent, [the government] will come after any of us tomorrow,” Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, wrote on Instagram last month. It was the beginning of a day of mass protests across Russia, where tens of thousands would take to the streets to demand the release of her husband. Police would detain over 5,000 people and arrest 1,600 by the day’s end.
NBC News: Navalnaya emerges as a force to be reckoned with
Yulia Navalnaya arrives at the Moscow City Court to attend the trial of her husband Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, in Moscow on Feb. 2, 2021.
