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Kremlin Foe Alexey Navalny Located in Arctic Jail Weeks After Contact Lost
Al Jazeera | 12/25/2023

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been tracked down to a prison north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman says after supporters lost touch with him for more than two weeks.

Kira Yarmysh on Monday said Navalny is in the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.

The district of Kharp . . .

They spelled Khrap wrong.

. . . is home to about 5,000 people and is located about 60km (40 miles) above the Arctic Circle.

His new home, known as the “Polar Wolf” colony, is considered one of the toughest prisons in Russia. Its inmates are convicted of grave crimes. Winters are harsh there with temperatures due to drop to about minus 28 degrees Celsius (minus 18 degrees Fahrenheit) there over the next week.

“It is almost impossible to get to this colony. It is almost impossible to even send letters there. This is the highest possible level of isolation from the world,” Navalny’s chief strategist, Leonid Volkov, said on X, formerly Twitter.

Guess he hasn’t heard about our January 6th “Right to a Speedy Trial” prisoners.

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