Novalny - Putin's funeral
Who is the prisoner now The man who has angered a nation that no longer accepts the delusions of a despot with no one else to blame for his failure as a military leader
He died in prison
"Locked in an Arctic prison, Aleksei A. Navalny is likely to have spent his final days in some of the most inhumane conditions within Russia’s extensive penitentiary system, according to five men who have served sentences in the same penal colony as the Russian opposition leader."
"The men described in phone interviews unbearable cold, repulsive food, unsanitary conditions, and beatings in Penal Colony No. 3 of the remote Yamalo-Nenets region, where Mr. Navalny arrived in December to serve out the remainder of his 19-year prison sentence. The former inmates said the conditions were especially brutal in the solitary cells where Mr. Navalny is believed to have been confined on the day he was pronounced dead."
"At his death, he was the most prominent critic of Mr. Putin still standing in Russia at a time when the president has engineered a path to remain in power until at least 2036."
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