While Navalny did crack a couple of dark jokes about prison life, inmates in Russia's penal colonies often have to contend with brutal living conditions. In 2022, the US State Department said in ...

And he said, 'Yes, yes, we realize.'" The Marine veteran was two years into his 16-year prison sentence after Russia arrested ...

Shocking footage shows the inside of a brutal Russian 'gulag' where disabled and ... become [a target for attack]. I fear for his life. They are all beaten and battered there.

"The death rate figures at FSIN establishments are 2.3 times down than in Russia in general," Sapozhnikov said. Most often prison inmates die of contagious diseases which kill every four out of ...

Having missed almost four years of her son's life while incarcerated in a Belarusian prison, Irina Schastnaya still wants to ...

Pereverzin tells Business Insider about life ... Russian jails and prisons, including details about police interrogations, solitary confinement, and forced labor. He describes the conditions in ...

As one current leader of a former Russian ally said to me recently: “Putin is just a gangster with a gas station.” When Putin made the foolish decision to illegally invade Ukraine, everyone was at ...

After his imprisonment, his trials were held inside prisons ... The story of Navalny’s time in prison, his 2020 poisoning by the Russian state, and his life and political views is told in ...