Yulia Navalnaya received the international Vanguardia Awards in Barcelona "for women's courage."
At the same time, another Navalnaya, 26-year-old Irina , a native of Mariupol, was sentenced by the Rostov-on-Don District Military Court to 8 years in a general regime penal colony on charges of preparing a terrorist attack during the "referendum" on the annexation of the self-proclaimed DPR to Russia in September 2022.
And no one will remember this other Navalnaya nor will she get an award for courage.
Irina Navalnaya was subjected to terrible torture in prison, including because of her last name.
"'Ah, Navalnaya, well, you're like Navalny's illegitimate daughter.' And they put her up against the wall and put a gun to her head", says Irina's mother. "And they call their own people, like, 'Come on, if you want to see Navalnaya.'"
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