Yulia Navalnaya

Yulia Borisovna Navalnaya is a Russian political activist and economist. The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, she has been described in media as the "first lady" of the Russian opposition. After her husband's death, Navalnaya announced that she would continue his work, while naming herself as another leader of the Russian opposition in exile, when she fled Russia in March 2021, after the Russian government's crackdown on protesters following Navalny's arrest and imprisonment.