“I can still hear Alexei’s voice,” Yulia Navalna shared in an emotional interview with The Sunday Times. The widow of the world’s most famous political prisoner not only continues his mission, but also takes the battle to the field of intellectual resistance through her new project, One Book Publishing.
The poison of the frog against the power of words
The revelations about Navalny’s death are becoming increasingly sinister. Five European governments confirmed that epibatidine, a highly toxic compound used in nature by dart frogs, was found in his body. “This is not the first time he has poisoned people,” Yulia stated, pointing directly at Putin. She is adamant that the evidence is now sufficient to charge her with murder, but she knows that the court in The Hague is only one side of the battle.
Navalny believes that the real end of autocracy begins when people stop being afraid to think. Her publishing house is already working on the Russian version of Navalny’s memoir, The Patriot, as well as key analyzes of dictatorships, such as those by Anne Applebaum.
“We believe that Russian-speaking readers should have access to the books that help us feel and resist,” she says. For Navalna, this is not just business, but cultural subversion against a regime that is terrified of the “thinking man.”
According to Yulia, Putin is a former KGB officer who lives in a distorted reality, believing in popular love. “One day, in prison, he will finally know the truth – that people never supported him, they were just silent in horror.”
As she leads the Anti-Corruption Fund from an unspecified European capital, Yulia Navalna emerges as a figure who is not just waiting for Putin to fall, but is actively undermining the foundations of his regime with the most dangerous weapon of all: the truth.
