Today, we at WAV, join many in the world in mourning for

Alexei Anatoljewitsch Nawalny

murdered in a Russian State prison. There is nothing, in what news there is coming from Russia, and the way Mr. Navalny has been treated by the Russian regime, to suggest otherwise.

He was a man of exceptional courage, integrity, humour – a beacon of humanity in a darkening world.

While our focus on WAV is and remains with the animals of this world, we recognise the link between Human and Animal oppression, Human and Animal torture, and Mr. Navalny was a champion of Freedom, Democracy, and Truth – for all that is right, and must remain so, and against all who would trample those values, and subject those they are taken from to Imprisonment, Torture and Death.

Evil must never prevail, not in Russia, nor anywhere else in the world.
Where Evil is allowed to thrive no being can live in Peace and Freedom.

For us personally, and our continued struggle for the welfare and rights of non-Humans worldwide,
Mr. Navalny, as a voice of Compassion, Justice and Truth, and above all, an example of singular courage, will be a source of inspiration. We may not be fighting the same fight – although Human Freedom and Human Rights are as important to us as those of Non-Humans, as issues clearly linked – and Russia’s political landscape was Mr. Navalny’s chosen ground of battle, where he, for his people and his country, sought to bring about much-needed change.
We seek to see the principles of humanity applied to all species sharing our world with, worldwide. In the end, it is our common struggle for a better world, and all that makes us – positively – human, that unites us.

One light has gone out, millions of others will burn the brighter now.

The fight will go on.

Rest in Peace, friend.

Mark & Diana