In February of this year, Alexi Navalny died in a Russian prison camp three years after he returned to his homeland.

Navalny was Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, an anti-corruption crusader who evolved into a political threat to Putin's near quarter century rule.

He survived a nerve agent poisoning by Russian operatives in the summer of 2020, but insisted on returning to continue his fight to change his nation.

Navalny's memoir is being published tomorrow, posthumously,

shepherded by his wife Yulia, who has taken on his mantle of political leadership.

Navalny wrote while recovering from the poisoning and later surreptitiously in prison.

Yulia Navalnaya met on the Navas yesterday in New York to discuss her husband's life and his work for

this memoir, Patriot.

Eulia, thank you for being here.

Welcome to the News Hour.

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

So as we sit here and speak now, it's been eight months since your husband died.

How are you doing?

Everything has changed in my life. This work on book and all this meeting with politicians,

conferences, they give me a power, but very much different than eight months ago.

It gives you a power, you said, what do you mean by that?

To continue Alexi's legacy, to continue to keep memory about him in people's minds.

Everything of this is very important for me.

There was one moment that really stood out

to millions of people. That was when you and Alexi returned to Russia in January of

2021 after he had been recovering in Germany after nearly dying from being poisoned by Russian agents and you and he walked

through the terminal after he landed and then he was immediately arrested

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