Joe Biden met Alexei Navalny's widow and daughter in SanFrancisco.
He reports this to the White House in a note.
Biden met Yulia and Dasha "to express his deepest condolences for their terrible loss", we read in the note from the White House which underlines that the president "expressed his admiration for Navalny's extraordinary courage in the fight against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia".
Biden stressed that the opponent's legacy will continue "through people across Russia and around the world who mourn his loss and fight for freedom, democracy and human rights."
The president recalled that tomorrow he will announce new heavy sanctions against Moscow.
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