Inside Aleksei Navalny’s Final Months, in His Own Words
Confined to cold, concrete cells and often alone with his books, Aleksei A. Navalny sought solace in letters. To one acquaintance, he wrote in July that no one could understand Russian prison life “without having been here,” adding in his deadpan humor: “But there’s no need to be here.” “If they’re told to feed you […]
Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47
Aleksei A. Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia while enduring arrests, assaults and a near-fatal poisoning, died on Friday in a Russian prison. He was 47. His death was announced by Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service and a spokeswoman for Mr. Navalny. […]
Aleksei Navalny, in Letter, Describes Transfer to Arctic Prison
Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, published a letter on Tuesday describing an arduous transfer to his new penal colony in the Arctic, the first time his supporters had heard from him in three weeks. Mr. Navalny’s comments, posted on his social network accounts and written with a heavy dose of irony and […]