Buddhist media releases interviews with members of the Council of Europe in 2020
Navalny: “There are more people ready to take my place”
“Without me, there would be difficulties in terms of morale and motivation.”
An unpublished interview with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly in prison last month, was released on the 6th (local time).
According to AFP, the French media Liberation and LCI broadcasting released a video of Navalny interviewing former French National Assembly member Jacques Mer, who was the French representative to the Parliament of the Council of Europe (PACE) at the time, in Berlin, the German capital, in December 2020. .
In the video, Navalny emphasized in English, “Nothing will change if you kill me,” and “There are others who are ready to take my place.”
“There are millions of people who don’t want to live in a country where all the power is in one hand,” he said. “It’s not about me. “This is a story about who I represent or try to represent.”
Regarding the personnel of the Anti-Corruption Foundation he heads, Navalny said, “They know how to operate without me. “Because I actually spend a lot of time in prison every year so they are used to working without me,” he explained, adding, “There are other people out there who can lead.”
However, he said, “Of course it will be more difficult (without me),” and added, “The organization will be maintained and operated, but it will be more difficult in terms of morale and motivation.”
This video was released by former lawmaker Mer with the consent of the Parliament of the Council of Europe.
Navalny’s widowed spouse, Yulia Navalnaya, is speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin in the European Union (EU).
On the same day, Navalnaya proposed to go to the polls at noon on the 17th, the last day of the presidential election, to express her protest against President Putin or to protest against the regime by writing ‘Navalny’ on the ballot paper.
Navalny, a prominent political opponent of President Putin, died suddenly while serving his sentence in the infamous 3rd prison of the Yamanenenets Autonomous Region in Siberia. Russian authorities announced that he fell unconscious after taking a walk and died from blood clots. Opinions are still divided about his cause of death.
The bereaved family held Navalny’s funeral at a church southeast of Moscow on the 1st. Mediazona, an independent Russian media outlet, counted the number of visitors to Navalny’s cemetery at around 27,000, less than a week after his burial.
Source: Donga
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