«We found Alexey Navalny. Now he is in the Ik-3 penal colony, in the Kharp settlement.” Spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote this in X after days of no news from Navalny. “His lawyer saw him – she adds – Alexey is fine.” Navalny, now in this penal colony in the far north of Russia, 2,000 kilometers from Moscow, has not been heard from since December 6th. It was only known that he was no longer detained in the Ik-6 colony, in the Vladimir region. On December 18, Navalny – sentenced to 19 years in prison for “extremism” – did not appear via videoconference at a court hearing in the city of Kovrov, as the dissident’s team had reported, fueling fears about his fate.
«We found Alexei!», Ivan Zhdanov, Navalny’s historical collaborator, also writes in X. And he denounces how the penal colony called “Polar Wolf” is one of the most remote in Russia and how “the conditions there are brutal”. It is very difficult to reach the area, a permafrost area, and – he emphasizes – no letters are delivered. For Zhdanov, the desire to isolate dissent in the face of presidential elections scheduled for March 17 in Russia was clear from the beginning.
Source: IL Tempo
John Cameron is a journalist at The Nation View specializing in world news and current events, particularly in international politics and diplomacy. With expertise in international relations, he covers a range of topics including conflicts, politics and economic trends.
