{"id":2518,"date":"2024-03-17T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/navalnys-widow-casts-her-ballot-in-berlin\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T19:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T19:08:02","slug":"navalnys-widow-casts-her-ballot-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/navalnys-widow-casts-her-ballot-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Navalny\u2019s Widow Casts Her Ballot in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/03\/17\/video\/17vid-yulia-navalnaya-COVER\/17vid-yulia-navalnaya-COVER-facebookJumbo.png?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Navalny\u2019s Widow Casts Her Ballot in Berlin\" title=\"Navalny\u2019s Widow Casts Her Ballot in Berlin\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, lined up with voters outside the Russian embassy in Berlin on Sunday, in one of her few public appearances since her husband\u2019s death last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Navalnaya has vowed to carry on her husband\u2019s work. Her presence at the embassy on Sunday to vote in Russia\u2019s presidential election appeared to be following one of Mr. Navalny\u2019s last political exhortations before he died: Endorsing another activist\u2019s call for opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin to show up at the polls on Sunday at noon local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Navalnaya declined to comment to reporters while standing in the mile-long line, flanked by her husband\u2019s longtime spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh. But she hugged and took photographs with supporters who approached her, some of them in tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After about six hours of waiting, Ms. Navalnaya emerged from the Russian Embassy. She told reporters that she had written in \u201cNavalny\u201d on her ballot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By 1 p.m., the line of voters stretched for nearly a mile through central Berlin, ending just past a sign marking the location of Hitler\u2019s World War II bunker. Several people waiting to cast ballots said they planned to vote for anyone other than Mr. Putin \u2014 even though the alternatives were Kremlin-approved candidates \u2014 or to write in Mr. Navalny\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yulia Lozovskaya, 29, who moved to Germany from St. Petersburg after Mr. Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, was one of many who sought out Ms. Navalnaya after learning on social media that she was standing somewhere in the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou feel you\u2019re not alone,\u201d Ms. Lozovskaya said, referring to the size of the crowd. \u201cAnd that gives enormous strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, lined up with voters outside the Russian embassy in Berlin on Sunday, in one of her few public appearances since her husband\u2019s death last month. Ms. Navalnaya has vowed to carry on her husband\u2019s work. Her presence at the embassy on Sunday to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/03\/17\/video\/17vid-yulia-navalnaya-COVER\/17vid-yulia-navalnaya-COVER-facebookJumbo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4455,4456,4454,4452,4453],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}