Can Yulia Navalnaya unite Russia’s opposition after Alexey Navalny’s death?

Yulia Navalnaya, now widowed, has blamed the Russian leadership for her husband's death [File: Denis Kaminev/Reuters]

Two days before his death, Alexey Navalny penned a valentine dedicated to his wife and muse Yulia.

“Baby, we’re like in the song [Hope] – between us, ‘There are cities, takeoff lights of airports, blue blizzards and thousands of kilometres,'” he wrote on February 14, St Valentine’s Day.