“Putin in Alexei’s cell” –

The Basmanny Court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya on charges of being a member of an “extremist organization,” the court’s press service told the Russian news agency Novosti. The woman, the widow of Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in February, is abroad. “The prosecutors have chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of two months,” the sources said. “The period is calculated from the moment of extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment of detention in the territory of the Russian Federation.”

Yulia Navalnaya reacted to the news in ‘X’, wondering if “it will be the usual procedure. A foreign agent, then the opening of a criminal case, then an arrest?!” In what appears to be an appeal to Western media, Navalnaya then asked that “when you write regarding this, please do not forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.” Wife of Russian dissident Navalny who died on February 16 in an Arctic penal colony in Siberia, Yulia added that “Putin belongs in prison,” but “not somewhere in The Hague, in a cozy cell with a TV, but in Russia, in the same colony and the same 2 by 3 meter cell where he killed Alexei.”