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What Life in Prison is Like For Alexei Navalny

Grim notes from one of Russia's harshest prisons

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Luke Johnson
Apr 05, 2021
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What's it like to be a political prisoner in one of Russia's most notorious prisons?

Alexei Navalny is telling us. The most prominent opponent of Vladimir Putin was poisoned in August 2020 -- likely d…

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