Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said she would run for president of Russia when Vladimir Putin is no longer in power. When the time is right, “I will participate in the elections … as a candidate,” Navalnaya told the BBC during an interview.

Her husband, President Putin’s most vocal critic, was sentenced to 19 years for extremism, charges that were seen as politically motivated. He died in February in a brutal penal colony in the Arctic Circle. US President Joe Biden said there was "no doubt" Putin was to blame. Russia denies killing Navalny.

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that she would one day return to Russia and run for president when Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is no longer in power,

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has said in an interview with the BBC that if she goes back to Russia, she would run for president, although this is impossible as long as Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is in power.

Since the death of Navalny in February, no single leader has emerged to unite the country’s disparate opposition.