TEXT-Extracts of Navalny widow's speech

Putin has not just killed the man Alexei Navalny, but wanted to kill with him our hope, our freedom, and our future. That we are strong, that we are brave, that we believe and that we are desperately fighting, and that we want to live differently." "My husband was unbreakable.

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, released a video message on her husband's YouTube channel on Monday saying she would continue his work. Here are extracts of her message.

"Putin took from me the most precious thing I had. My closest and most beloved person. But Putin has also taken Navalny from you. Putin has not just killed the man Alexei Navalny, but wanted to kill with him our hope, our freedom, and our future. To destroy and eradicate the best proof that Russia could be different. That we are strong, that we are brave, that we believe and that we are desperately fighting, and that we want to live differently." "My husband was unbreakable. And that's precisely why Putin killed him. Shamefully, cowardly, without ever daring to look him in the eye or just say his name. And just as shamefully and cowardly, they are now hiding his body, not showing it to his mother, not giving it back, and pathetically lying and waiting for traces of another Putin 'Novichok' (poison) to disappear."

"We know exactly why Putin killed Alexei three days ago. We will tell you soon. We will absolutely find out who exactly carried out this crime, and how exactly they did it. We're going to name names and show faces." "In killing Alexei, Putin has killed half of me. Half of my heart and half of my soul. But there is another half of me, and it tells me that I have no right to give in. I will continue Alexei Navalny's work, I will continue the struggle for our country. And I call on you to stand together with me. Share with me not just the grief and endless pain that has enveloped us and does not let us go. I call on you to share my fury. My fury, my anger, my hatred of those who dared to murder our future."

"I am addressing you with Alexei's words, in which I very much believe. 'It is not shameful to do little. It is shameful to do nothing. It is shameful to let yourself be frightened.' We need to make use of every opportunity. To fight against the war, against corruption, against injustice. To fight for fair elections and free speech. To fight to get our country back."

"The main thing that we can do for Alexei and for ourselves is to continue fighting. Fighting all the more, all the more desperately and furiously than before. I know that it can seem that that’s impossible. But we must. We must all come together in one strong fist and strike at this maddened regime. At Putin, at his friends, at the bandits in uniform, at the thieves and the murderers who have crippled our country." "The free, peaceful, just, beautiful Russia of the future, of which my husband dreamed, is what we need. I want to live in such a Russia. I want my and Alexei’s children to live there. I want to build it together with you, just as Alexei imagined: full of dignity, justice and love. Only like this can the unimaginable sacrifice that he made be not in vain. Fight on and do not give up. I am not afraid, and you should fear nothing."