On Tuesday, the day after she called out Vladimir Putin in a video, Yulia Navalnaya’s account disappeared, allegedly over an ‘error.’
Late last week Alexei Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest homeland critics, mysteriously died in a Siberian penal colony. Many, including President Joe Biden, put the blame on Putin himself. The cause of death authorities provided wasn’t exactly convincing; they claim he died of “sudden death syndrome.” All the stranger was what happened days later to a social media account belonging to Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya.
Per Reuters, Navalnaya’s Twitter/X account was mysteriously suspended. Some speculated that it was done at the behest of Elon Musk, a free speech advocate with a history of suspending accounts he doesn’t like (while un-banning scores of rabid anti-Semites and other harassing pests).
