Two years ago, on January 17, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow after several weeks of convalescence in Germany. He had been hospitalized there after poisoning with Novichok, a nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union. Arrested as soon as he arrived at the airport, he was tried in two trials and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Despite his imprisonment, he nevertheless managed to recount in great detail, through his “prison letters”, his daily life in the Russian gulag. Thanks to these texts that his lawyers and relatives publish on social networks, this political figure of unprecedented courage is not completely forgotten by Russian society.
It is clear that Vladimir Putin has ordered the living conditions of Navalny, whom he considers a personal enemy, to be unbearable.
How Putin made Navalny his number one opponent
Navalny was transferred to an extremely harsh penal colony near the town of Vladimir, 200 kilometers from Moscow. He has not seen his wife or his parents for at least six months, and he is deprived of visitation for the slightest “infraction” of prison rules. And what offenses! Thus, on December 31, he was sent for the tenth time to a disciplinary unit for the maximum duration, that is to say fifteen days. What are we accusing him of? CCTV recorded him bathing at 5:24 a.m. However, according to the plan
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