Yulia Navalnaya’s account was briefly disabled by social networking site X on Tuesday, just one day after she made it in the aftermath of her husband’s death, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Yulia Navalnaya, who had previously stated that she did not consider herself a political figure, pledged on Monday to continue her husband’s work and claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had killed him in a video statement uploaded on X, formerly Twitter.
Around 50 minutes after being suspended without explanation, the @Yulia_Navalnaya account page became available again.
The page offered a link to the site’s rules of use, but it did not explain why the account had been stopped.
According to the guidelines, accounts can be suspended for a variety of reasons, including safety and privacy concerns, like hate speech or sharing private information, to authenticity and verification, such as impersonating people online.
Yulia Navalnaya started the account on Monday. Several of Navalny’s top aides and official accounts confirmed that it was her authentic account.
On Monday, she shared an emotive video appeal on the platform, accusing Putin of killing Navalny and urging Russians to join her in the fight against the Kremlin.
Hours before the suspension, she wrote an indignant reaction to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, who told reporters that her suspicions of Putin’s participation in her husband’s murder were “vulgar and unfounded.”
Yulia Navalnaya stated that she did not “give a damn”.
Navalny, Putin’s most vociferous adversary over the previous decade, died Friday in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year term largely interpreted as retribution for opposing the Kremlin.
Vladimir Putin has not publicly commented on his death.
