Yulia Navalnaya has vowed to continue the fight of her dead husband Alexei Navalny for a "free Russia" and called on supporters to oppose President Vladimir Putin with greater fury than ever. Yulia Navalnaya was born Yulia Abrosimova on June 24, 1976, in Moscow. A graduate of the prestigious Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Navalnaya worked for some time in a Moscow bank.