Yulia Navalnaya tells MEPs to 'stop being boring' to defeat Putin's regime

The European Parliament needs to "stop being boring" if it wants to stand up to Vladimir Putin, Yulia Navalnaya told the hemicycle on Wednesday.

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00:00 Yulia Navalnaya has asked the European Parliament not to give in to war fatigue or call for

00:07 peace talks with Putin. Two weeks after her husband Alexei Navalny was killed in a Russian

00:12 prison, Navalnaya said the EU must find more inventive ways of targeting Putin`s criminal

00:17 associates who hide money and power in EU countries.

00:22 If you really want to defeat Putin, you have to become an innovator. You have to be a leader

00:29 and you have to stop being boring. You cannot hurt Putin with another resolution or another

00:36 set of sanctions. That is no different from the previous ones. You cannot defeat him by

00:55 thinking he`s a man of principle who has morals and rules.

01:01 For years, Alexei Navalny fiercely campaigned against corruption in Russia, becoming the

01:07 biggest threat to Putin`s grip on power. The Kremlin threatened, imprisoned and tortured

01:13 him and is believed to have ordered his assassination. But Navalnaya has vowed to continue her husband`s

01:19 fight. She asked the EU to help by working hand in hand with pro-democracy Russians.

01:24 There are tens of millions of Russians who are against war, against Putin, against the

01:31 evil he brings. We must not persecute them. On the contrary, you must work with them,

01:38 with us. My husband will never see what the beautiful Russia of the future will look like.

01:50 But we must see it.

01:57 Hundreds in Russia have been detained for publicly mourning Navalny`s death as part

02:05 of Putin`s brutal crackdown on dissent. Navalnaya said his funeral would take place on Friday

02:11 in Moscow.

02:12 [WHOOSH]