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journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Parenak Amidi. What will you do for love? On this episode of the fifth floor we are going to talk

about love and the high price some are willing to pay for it.

Yulia Navalny and her husband, the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, met in 1998. It was a chance encounter. He noticed her through the window

of a tour bus. They were 22 and fell in love. For over 20 years Yulia stuck by him. She was at his side when he was

poisoned and fought for him when he was in prison. On the morning of February the 16th,

Eulia was getting ready to give a speech at an international conference.

A message pinged on her phone, a news flash. Her husband was dead.

I guess you all have already seen this horrible news coming from Russia. I was thinking

for a long time what should I do? Should I go here or should I fly straight to see my kids but then I thought what would

Alexi do if he was here and I'm sure that he would have chosen to be here to come to this stage.

Since then, Yulia Nivalnya has become a symbol of Russian political opposition. V I began by asking her about their relationship.

In Russia, it's not very common for politicians to show their wives to the public.

On the contrary, it's common for them to have like wives, lovers, secret affairs and stuff and all of that is just rumors.

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