Biden meets Alexei Navalny widow, daughter during California trip

President Biden met Thursday with the widow and daughter of Russian activist Alexei Navalny, six days after the announcement of his death in an Arctic prison.

The meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya took place in San Francisco and represents the first confirmation of Yulia Navalnaya’s whereabouts since her husband’s death.

Dasha Navalnaya is a student at nearby Stanford University.

In a statement, the White House said Biden “express[ed] his heartfelt condolences” to the women “for their terrible loss” and “expressed his admiration for … Navalny’s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to everyone.”