Yulia Navalnaya gets German press award, vows to ‘keep fighting for media freedom’ in Russia

Record ID: 1819294

  • Title: Yulia Navalnaya gets German press award, vows to ‘keep fighting for media freedom’ in Russia
  • Date: 19th April 2024
  • Summary: GMUND, GERMANY (APRIL 19, 2024) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF YULIA NAVALNAYA ARRIVING FOR ‘FREEDOM PRIZE OF THE MEDIA’ CEREMONY GUESTS SEATED ON PODIUM FOR DISCUSSION PRIOR TO AWARD VARIOUS OF NAVALNAYA WALKING TO HER SEAT AND BEING PHOTOGRAPHED NAVALNAYA WALKING ONTO STAGE TO APPLAUSE AND RECEIVING PRIZE FROM WOLFRAM WEIMER OF WEIMER MEDIA GROUP NAVALNAYA AND OTHERS POSING FOR CAMERA ON STAGE AS APPLAUSE IS HEARD AUDIENCE STANDING AND APPLAUDING (SOUNDBITE) (English) WIDOW OF LATE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION POLITICIAN ALEXEI NAVALNY, YULIA NAVALNAYA, SAYING: “Two months ago, Putin killed him in prison. This means I have to keep up the work for both of us. I’ll keep up fighting for media freedom like Alexei did and I will also bring something of my own.” NAVALNAYA SPEAKING ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) WIDOW OF LATE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION POLITICIAN ALEXEI NAVALNY, YULIA NAVALNAYA, SAYING: “We do everything possible to continue this work. We want Russians who stand against Putin and against war to have access to uncensored information they can trust and share.” AUDIENCE LISTENING NAVALNAYA LEAVING STAGE APPLAUSE NAVALNAYA SMILING AS APPLAUSE IS HEARD / ‘LUDWIG-ERHARD-AWARD’ IN HER HANDS
  • Embargoed: 3rd May 2024 11:42
  • Keywords: Alexei German media prize Russia Yulia Navalnaya opposition
  • Location: GMUND, GERMANY
  • City: GMUND, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001637019042024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:PLEASE NOTE: SOUND AS PROVIDED BY ORGANISERS
    Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, said in Germany on Friday (April 19) that she woud continue to fight for media freedom and the work of her late husband so that “Russians who stand against Putin and against war have access to uncensored information they can trust and share.”
    Speaking at a ceremony in Bavaria where she received a press award from a publishing house, Navalnaya reiterated earlier remarks that Russian President Vladimir Putin had killed her husband in prison.
    In an interview with Time magazine published two days earlier, Navalnaya said she had hired a bodyguard following a hammer attack on a senior ally of her late husband.
    A hammer-wielding assailant attacked Leonid Volkov, a Navalny aide, outside his home in Vilnius, Lithuania, in March, breaking his arm and pounding his leg with a series of blows.
    (Production: Ayhan Uyanik, Michele Sani)
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