Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia has X account reinstated [Video]

The X account belonging to Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia has been restored shortly after it was suspended prompting a social media outcry.

It is unclear why the social network, formerly Twitter, suspended Yulia Navalnaya’s account but it appears to have been swiftly reinstated.

Online searches for the account had brought up the message “Account suspended” with a note that X “suspends accounts that violate our rules” but it now shows a video message from her late husband’s mother.

The jailed dissident died on Friday in the ‘Polar Wolf’ Arctic prison camp where he was being held by Russian authorities.

The Kremlin’s most prominent critic, 47-year-old Mr Navalny was imprisoned in January 2021 after he returned to Russia from Germany where he was recuperating from a near-lethal poisoning with a nerve agent. His widow has vowed to continue his campaign and speaking …