Putin critic Navalny said to be on remote penal colony | DW News

Well in other news now Russian authorities have moved jailed Kremlin critic Alexa naali to a remote penal colony in Northern Russia that’s according to his spokesperson naval’s team tracked him down after he hadn’t been seen for more than two weeks his lawyer visited him in the new prison

Navali is seen as the most prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin and is serving a 19-year sentence for alleged extremism and other charges he was imprisoned nearly three years ago Let’s cross now to DW’s Russia analyst Constantine egot Constantine hi there so finally a confirmation that naali is alive what else do we

Know well we do know that he is in one of the most remote penal colonies in Russia it’s the yamal peninsula on the uh banks of the Arctic sea uh it’s permafrost there and uh it is very very badly connected essentially there is only one channel of communication prison

Letters um and that means that visiting Nal maintaining contact with him will be extremely difficult and that was probably uh the whole idea behind his transfer and of course there was an additional insult and suffering added to the family and to the followers of novali uh because for two weeks there

Was no news about him but in a sense Jared it’s a standard procedure for high-profile prisoners when they are being transported from one penal colony to another it’s sometimes done under this cover of secrecy actually to increase suffering because to remind you the Russian penal system remained well

Give or take uh more or less the same as it was under Stalin and it was designed as a giant system of torture Constantine given all that what are the conditions that we might assume naali is being held in well his uh Associates are saying

That it is a very strict Colony by by strict that means that for example um his ability to take a walk because every prisoner has a right to uh have like whatever 30 minutes or 40 minutes of of uh uh walk uh every uh day now it maybe

I know every week for example uh he’s probably uh kept in solitary confinement or he’s going to be put in solitary confinement for any kind of small infringement that the administ prison Administration uh will definitely find because uh there is no limits to the uh

To to to to breaking the rules in the eyes of the prison authorities in Russia they always find some small things which they can use as punishment as a reason for punishment so I suppose it will be very very difficult for Alexy much more difficult than in the previous place

Which was not at all an easy one Constantine Russian authorities had refused to disclose where Nali was now that we do know a bit more you know where he is and how he is what messages could the authorities be sending with this new information well the message is very

Simple uh navali uh is going to rot in jail for as long as Putin is in power and that’s going to take quite a bit of time um he’s also they also demonstrated by these uh two plus weeks of holding him in communicado that they can do

Anything to him that naval’s life is completely at the mercy of the Kremlin that was stressed again and stress during the beginning of Putin’s so-called election campaign preparations for his so-call election uh I think that the message is very simple uh there is only one politician in Russia his name

Is Vladimir Putin and any one who stands in his way is going to get an extremely harsh treatment Russia analyst Constantine Constantine thanks so much

Russian authorities have moved jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a remote penal colony in northern Russia. That’s according to his spokesperson.

Navalny’s team tracked him down after he had not been seen for more than two weeks. His lawyer visited him in the new prison. Navalny is seen as the most prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin and is serving a 19-year sentence for alleged extremism and other charges. He was imprisoned nearly three years ago.

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36 comments

  2. The Russian prison system is amazing! Remote punishment (from home I presume?). I have to get in an argument with my employer to get home office more than three times a week

  7. lol… so I guess now you all apologize for rumors you were spreading for a few previous weeks, right? I mean you were wrong… clowns.

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  18. Russia is led by KGB colonel and former FSB director Vladimir Putin. He worked all his life in the KGB system. There they were taught to obey superiors, submit, suppress, destroy and kill. This may seem surprising: the majority of the population of today's Russia, with ostentatious and formally declared anti-fascism, are fascists. The antipodes of fascism and fascists are democracy and democrats. I'll try to explain what I mean. We understand everything about democracy. Translated from ancient Greek, “democracy” means “power of the people.” Accordingly, this power is implemented in some places better, in others worse, through the election system. Ideally, these elections should be absolutely free, without any qualifications other than age. Everyone strives for this ideal. Some are closer to him, some are further away. There are fewer and fewer dictatorships left in the world. Russia today stands apart and belongs to the type of state we know: fascist. The problem is not even in the government that governs this country – more precisely, not only in the government, but also in the population of Russia. With the government, everything is simple: at the current historical stage, Russia is ruled by a junta of KGB/FSB officers. They captured the highest government, political, managerial, economic and economic positions. If not all heads of large businesses, banks and companies are FSB officers, then they are deputies assigned to management who control the business in the interests of their organization. People from the FSB do not believe in democracy and do not play at it, they believe in force and dictatorship. You can list a lot of bad things that the FSB believes in, and a lot of good things that it doesn’t believe in. Among other things, she does not believe in the right of the people to participate in free elections and through this to govern the state. On this issue, another group of functionaries who consider themselves statesmen agrees with the FSB. These include – from famous people – Alexander Voloshin and Anatoly Chubais. They stand for the priority of the state over the individual, they believe that in the interests of the state everything is permitted, that the end justifies the means, that a strong state is always good, and a weak one is bad. And if the easiest and fastest way to rebuild a strong state with a centralized “vertical” is to put power in the hands of the FSB, then the FSB should be put in power. The priority of the state over the individual and the insignificance of the individual before the state is fascism. So the statists in today's Russia are fascists. Let's move on to officials who, for the most part, support Putin. They have many reasons for this. First of all, officials are civil servants, dependent on the state, and therefore statists. Being an official in Russia today is the most profitable profession. Some take bribes, some take kickbacks, some combine work for the state with private business, made possible thanks to their position. Some people combine the first, second and third, or put their family members at the head of large businesses. The last thing an official is interested in is free elections and popular control over his activities. In this regard, all Russian officials are also fascists. Putin, who classifies data on officials' real estate (and real estate throughout the world is the main form of storing acquired capital), suits the bureaucrat. The FSB is also happy with this system, since it creates the opportunity to blackmail the unwanted and intractable. Therefore, there are no intractable people in the Russian state apparatus. Russian officials unconditionally support Putin and the FSB, under whom the opportunities for corruption have become truly limitless. And this is the reason why among officials we do not see defectors and those who voluntarily resign.

  21. In the far Arctic, this Christmas day , 2023, that the little Jesus Christ helped NAVALNY.
    Putin take Ukraine and get lost. We need Navalny to be free 🙏 with his ❤ loved one's!

  23. This should be a sign for the russian people if they want to get rid of putin because it shows how fearful putin is of looseing his control of the country

  26. Why is Navalny important again. Because of Russia upcoming election? If you have a candidate in Germany that was working with your adversary what would you do? Go figure.
    Report on real issues that concerns Germans such as self inflicting sanctions, deindustrialization and when would Germany gets its sovereignty back?

  32. Russian Authorities still haven't exterminated Nawalny. Could it be, that he has some kind of power…. and they fear him?! If his death would'nt shift something inside Russia, he would be dead by now. could it be?! I just an assumption.

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