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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, has accused President Vladimir Putin of lies and broken promises on the day of his fifth inauguration. Navalnaya said Putin’s “promises are not just empty, they are lies,” in a video published on Tuesday. Her video showed excerpts from Putin’s speech at the start of his fourth term in office in 2018, in which he said the most important goal of his presidency was a peaceful and prosperous future for Russia. It then contrasted Putin’s assertions with images from the bloody war Putin launched in Ukraine more than two years ago. Navalnay…

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