Biden meets with Navalny family in California
President Joe Biden met Thursday with the wife and daughter of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, the White House said, as the president prepares to levy additional sanctions against Russia.
After the meeting, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin himself will be sanctioned.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I had the honor of meeting with his wife and daughter and, to state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Biden told reporters of Navalny. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We바카라 게임 웹사이트re gonna be announcing sanctions against Putin, who is responsible for his death, tomorrow.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Biden said it was clear from the meeting that Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s wife would 바카라 게임 웹사이트continue to fight.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트We바카라 게임 웹사이트re not letting up,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.
The occurred in California, where Biden is traveling for political fundraisers. Dasha Navalnaya, Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s daughter, is a student at Stanford University.
In a statement, the White House said Biden 바카라 게임 웹사이트expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to everyone.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Biden 바카라 게임 웹사이트emphasized that Aleksey바카라 게임 웹사이트s legacy will carry on through people across Russia and around the world mourning his loss and fighting for freedom, democracy, and human rights.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya came a day ahead of an expected new round of US sanctions on Russia, in part for Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s death.
Biden, in his meeting, 바카라 게임 웹사이트affirmed that his Administration will announce major new sanctions against Russia tomorrow in response to Aleksey바카라 게임 웹사이트s death, Russia바카라 게임 웹사이트s repression and aggression, and its brutal and illegal war in Ukraine.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s death, announced last Friday by the Russian prison service, spurred international outrage at Putin. Navalny is the latest in a series of Putin critics to die under mysterious circumstances.
Shortly after Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s death was reported, Biden placed the blame directly at Putin바카라 게임 웹사이트s feet.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The fact of the matter is: Putin is responsible, whether he ordered it or he is responsible for the circumstances he put that man in,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Biden told reporters on Monday. 바카라 게임 웹사이트And he바카라 게임 웹사이트s 바카라 게임 웹사이트 it바카라 게임 웹사이트s a reflection of who he is. And it just cannot be tolerated.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Biden has also sharply criticized the response to Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s death from his likely 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump. In his first public comment on Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s death, Trump posted a message to social media that compared his own legal troubles to what Navalny faced. Trump did not mention Putin in his message and has recently said he would encourage Russia to have its way with NATO member countries who did not uphold funding obligations.
바카라 게임 웹사이트He바카라 게임 웹사이트s comparing himself to Navalny and saying that because our country바카라 게임 웹사이트s become a communist country, he was persecuted, just like Navalny was persecuted,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Biden said during a Wednesday fundraiser of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s comments. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Where the hell does this comes from?바카라 게임 웹사이트
At the same fundraiser, Biden referred to Putin as a 바카라 게임 웹사이트crazy SOB.바카라 게임 웹사이트 The Kremlin in turn said Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s comments were a 바카라 게임 웹사이트huge disgrace바카라 게임 웹사이트 for the United States.
Navalny was Russia바카라 게임 웹사이트s highest-profile opposition leader who spent years criticizing Putin at great personal risk.
In 2020, Navanly was poisoned by with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent. He spent months in Germany recovering from the poisoning before returning to Russia in 2021. He was arrested upon arriving in Russia.
Navalny was serving a 19-year prison sentence after being found guilty in August of creating an extremist community, financing extremist activists and various other crimes. He was already serving sentences of 11-and-a-half years in a maximum security facility on fraud and other changes he denies.
He spent his final weeks at the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp, known as 바카라 게임 웹사이트Polar Wolf,바카라 게임 웹사이트 where he described 바카라 게임 웹사이트freezing바카라 게임 웹사이트 conditions prior to his death.
The Russian prison service reported Navalny 바카라 게임 웹사이트felt unwell after a walk바카라 게임 웹사이트 in his Siberian penal colony and 바카라 게임 웹사이트almost immediately바카라 게임 웹사이트 lost consciousness.
Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, said she saw her son바카라 게임 웹사이트s body in a Siberian morgue on Wednesday.
A medical report attributed the cause of 47-year-old Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s death to natural causes, Navalny바카라 게임 웹사이트s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said on X.