The anti-corruption activist, the bête noire of Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year prison sentence for “extremism”.
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“Do not worry about me.” Imprisoned Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, whose relatives remained without news for several weeks, published a reassuring message on Tuesday, December 26, on social networks. “I’m doing well”, he declared on X (formerly Twitter), after his transfer to a penal colony in the Russian Arctic.
“I’m relieved to have finally arrived”he added, specifying that the journey to his new place of detention, which lasted 20 days, had been “quite tiring”. The day before, the lawyer of the opponent of Vladimir Putin, Kira Larmych, had declared on a locality of around 5,000 inhabitants, located in Yamalo-Nenetsia, a remote region in northern Russia.
Alexeï Navalny, anti-corruption activist and bête noire of the Russian president, serving a 19-year prison sentence For “extremism”. The absence of any news from him since the beginning of December suggested that he had been transferred from the colony in the Vladimir region, 250 km from Moscow, where he had been detained until now. “From the start, it became clear that the authorities wanted to isolate Alexei, especially before the election” presidential election scheduled for March 2024, reacted one of his close collaborators, Ivan Zhdanov, on X.