Alexei Navalny, Russia's most famous opposition leader, shares letters showing how he has poked fun at prison authorities with requests for a kimono, a balalaika, a beetle and even a kangaroo.
Alexei Navalny, Russia's most famous opposition leader, on Friday shared letters showing how he has poked fun at prison authorities for several months with a host of bizarre requests for a kimono, a balalaika, a beetle and even a kangaroo.Mr Navalny has asked for an eclectic range of items during his incarcerationHis requests have been turned down by the maximum security IK-6 penal colony at Melekhovo, about 250 kilometres east of Moscow, according to the Russian documents he posted online.
Mr Navalny is serving combined sentences of 11 and a half years for fraud and contempt of court, on charges that he says were trumped up to silence him. The correspondence also revealed conditions inside the Russian prison system: Mr Navalny asked for a megaphone to be given to a mentally ill convict in a cell opposite so that "he could shout even louder".
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