Life in prison is becoming increasingly difficult for Alexey Navalny. Navalny, who survived an attempted poisoning and was imprisoned until the age of 74 for corruption and extremism, is forced to listen to the Russian anthem and songs of a popular figure due to convictions deemed misleading and instrumental in eliminating Vladimir Putin’s main rival. Pro-Putin nationalist singer.
The Kremlin critic, who has been in a cell in Yamal, a remote Russian Arctic region 40 kilometers north of Russia’s polar circle, for several weeks and has been subjected to a very harsh prison regime, spoke of a strict and exhausting daily music routine: At 5 a.m. Navalny and other prisoners , author of ultra-patriotic lyrics glorifying war, is forced to listen to “I’m Russian” by the popular 32-year-old singer Shaman (born Yaroslav Dronov): a song style that has been exploited Putin recently performed a new and easy remake in the Kremlin in March He was aiming to hold an election. Last November, Shaman also made headlines when he pressed a red button live during a concert to simulate the order to launch a nuclear missile.
“Since singer Shaman was famous while I was in prison, I couldn’t see him, I didn’t listen to his music. But I knew that he was Putin’s most important singer and his most famous song was ‘I am a Russian’. Frankly, I was curious to listen to it, but where could I listen to it?
Then they took me to Yamal. And here, at 5 o’clock in the morning, “Get up!” command, then we hear the Russian national anthem, and then the country’s second most important song is played: “I am Russian” from Shaman,” Navalny writes in X.
1/6 While I was in prison, singer Şaman came on stage, so I could neither see nor listen to his music. But I know that he is now Putin’s main singer. And there is his most popular song: “I am Russian”.
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 22, 2024
Source: Today IT
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