Why the Navalny Sentence Hits Home for Marina Litvinenko

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So, let me ask you, because you have a very personal relationship to what’s going on. As I said, your husband was one of the first, if not the first high-profile dissident to be killed, to be bumped off, let’s face it, polonium poisoning here in the U.K. What would you say to Yulia, Alexei Navalny’s wife? And how do you see — where do you think the Kremlin might draw a line in this kind of reaction to political opposition?

MARINA LITVINENKO, WIDOW OF ALEXANDER LITVINENKO: You are absolutely right. For what happened to Alexei Navalny and his family, it’s very personal to me. And for what happened in 2006 in London, and what happened now, in Russia, in Berlin and Moscow, it’s very, very touching. And I do understand what Yulia Navalny is going through, because, in my experience, being in the Russian court is well, and understanding you can’t find any truth. Even they try to do everything in the law way, why Alexei Navalny agreed to come back to Moscow, because he knew he would be arrested, but he still believe in some law system still survives in Russia. But what you saw today, it didn’t. But in my situation, I was in U.K. It was a different background. It was a different investigation, different support. But what I see now, and Yulia and Alexei and his colleagues, everybody have a lot of supporters now. It’s a new generation of young people who are very brave. And for what Alexei Navalny, it’s very important to them to feel and to see how the real politician could be honest and brave.