Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny's wife and Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, in the European Parliament, in Brussels. After their meeting, Roberta METSOLA, EP President gives a statement.

VERHOFSTADT, Guy (Renew, BE)

METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

president's agenda

Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought 2021 (T)

VOLKOV, Leonid

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Yulia NAVALNAYA and Leonid VOLKOV, Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation: arrival, welcome, roundtable and statement after the meeting

Arrival of  Yulia NAVALNAYA and Leonid VOLKOV, Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation:with Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew,BE); welcome by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

Family photo with Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Yulia NAVALNAYA , Alexei Navalny's wife,  Leonid VOLKOV, Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation:and Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew,BE)

Family photo with Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Yulia NAVALNAYA , Alexei Navalny's wife

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP president, <p> I've just emerged from an extremely constructive meeting with the wife of Alexei Navalny, the winner of the 2021 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, together with his chief of staff. They are organizing a global free Navalny campaign, which the European Parliament fully endorses and will support. Discussions were also took place on the need to increase persons that are currently under sanctions list who are responsible for the repression, the unprovoked, illegal and brutal invasion of Ukraine by Putin and the Kremlin. </p>

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, <p>That is something that the European Parliament will continue to push back against in a campaign both on the ground politically in terms of solidarity, but also with the laws and decisions that we pass in order to help Ukraine win this war. For us, Russia means Navalny. It means Magnitsky. It means Nemtsov. And these are brave citizens that together with Alexei Navalny's wife, that we will continue to push for, both in their memory and in the current fight for freedom, as is the case of Alexei</p>