Alexei Navalny’s daughter, Dasha, celebrates graduating from Stanford alongside beaming mother Yulia

Alexei Navalny’s daughter celebrated her graduation from Stanford University with her beaming mother Yulia on Sunday, just four months after the death of the Russian opposition leader.

Dasha Navalnaya, 23, took to Instagram on Monday to share photos from her graduation ceremony from the Ivy League college in California the day before.

The graduate wore a white mini dress and yellow kitten heels for the occasion, and in one photo, the graduate can be seen raising one hand in the air in celebration.

Her proud mother, and widow of Alexei, also shared some snaps on social media.

In one image, the mother-daughter duo is depicted side by side, with Dasha wearing her graduation robes and ribbon while also holding her diploma.

Dasha and her radiant mother Yulia pose together on Dasha’s graduation day on Sunday

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Yulia radiantly poses with her arm lovingly on her daughter’s shoulder, wearing a yellow midi dress and orange heels.

Yulia also shared a selfie with her smiley daughter, who is wearing her graduation cap.

The proud mother’s caption, written in Russian, reads: ‘I am very proud…The smartest, most beautiful and above all the best friend in the world. Our girl’.

Yulia also shared videos from the graduation ceremony on her Instagram stories. One clip shows the crowd of recent graduates cheering, while another clip shows the graduating class walking out of a building.

Dasha was captured showing her mother a tender smile.

Yulia shared clips from Dasha’s graduation on her Instagram Story. In one clip, footage of the graduating class and their supporters in the crowd were filmed cheering

In another clip, Dasha is seen dressed in her graduation robes as she smiles at her proud mother

The 23-year-old’s graduation comes just a few months after the death of her father, political activist Alexei, in February. He was recognized as Russia’s fiercest Putin critic.

Before his untimely death at the age of 47, he had survived poisoning attempts and spent years in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons after exposing corruption at almost every level of the Russian state.

Even behind bars he was an influential voice.

But in February this year, he reportedly lost consciousness and died while taking a walk in the Polar Wolf Arctic prison.

Alexei’s allies, branded extremists by authorities, had accused Putin of killing him and said they would provide evidence to support their claim, but the Kremlin has denied any state involvement.

US intelligence sources have claimed there is no evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in the assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Yulia Navalnaya, center, widow of Alexey Navalny believes the Kremlin ordered her husband’s murder

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Yulia met Alexei in 1998 while on holiday in Turkey, and the couple married just two years later and gave birth to their two children, Dasha (pictured, left) and Zakhar (pictured, bottom).

US intelligence agencies determined in April that Putin likely did not order Navalny’s killing Wall Street Journal.

Yulia has insisted she believes Putin was responsible for her husband’s death.

Despite his death, Dasha and Yulia took over from Alexei.

“Putin killed half of me, but my other half doesn’t want to give up,” Yulia declared in the aftermath of her husband’s death.

Dasha has been supportive of her mother and even attended a rally in San Francisco with President Joe Biden in February.

Responding to the mother-daughter duo, Biden wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the “legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha.”

She is expected to play an increasingly important role in keeping her father’s campaign alive.

Earlier this month, ahead of Dasha’s graduation, an article by the 23-year-old was published in Harper’s Bazaar, entitled ‘My father the superhero’.

In a moving tribute to her late father, she wrote: ‘I always thought of my father as a superhero: big and strong, intelligent and charismatic, hardworking and resilient. He had an unbreakable moral compass and little patience for injustice. My father was a man of courage. He was fearless because he understood the importance of his struggle – for democracy, transparency and truth.”