Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Talks Power Of Cinema; Says ‘Navalny’ Doc Made Activist World Star & Welcomes Widow’s Pledge To Continue His Democracy Fight

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Russian Pussy Riot Dissident Nadya Tolokonnikova has welcomed a pledge by Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya to carry on his fight for democracy, following his death in an Arctic penal colony last week.

Speaking just hours after Navalnaya released a video statement vowing to continue her late husband’s political campaign, Tolokonnikova said she would be “an amazing figure to unite Russian opposition.” “Today Yulia Navalnaya came out with a really beautiful statement and I was hoping she was going to make this statement because in my mind she only had two choices to retreat into depression or to continue fighting,” Tolokonnikova told Deadline at the Cinema for Peace gala dinner in Berlin on Monday evening.

Pussy Riot cofounder and activist @Nadyariot welcomes pledge by Alexei Navalny’s widow to continue her husband’s message at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin.

pic.twitter.com/RV3rVsA0CU She attended the event in the company of Navalny’s lawyer Lyubov Sobol. The Cinema for Peace Foundation, which organized Navalny’s airlift from Russia in 2020, paid tribute to the late activist at the gala dinner.