Russian dissident Alexei Navalny placed in isolation

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WASHINGTON — Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been placed in solitary confinement at the remote penal colony where he is serving a nine-year sentence for supposed fraud, raising renewed concerns for the safety of Vladimir Putin’s top political foe.

On his Twitter account, Navalny said that he had been placed in isolation because he had been trying to form a prisoners’ union. Earlier this month he also filed a lawsuit that asks his penal colony to disclose who purchases the goods manufactured there.

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A popular opposition figure, Navalny survived a 2020 poisoning attempt, which Kremlin critics widely believe was conducted by Russian security services. He recovered in Germany but then returned to Russia, even though he knew he would be arrested as soon as his airplane touched down in Moscow, as was in fact the case.

“I know that I am in the right, and that the criminal cases against me are fabricated,” he said defiantly at the time. The arrest was widely seen in the West as an attempt to silence one of the Russian president’s few remaining opponents. Others had either fled to the West or been killed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-dissident-alexey-navalny-placed-in-isolation-171443292.html

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1. This dude is the real 'man of steel'.