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December 26, 2023

Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Resurfaces in Arctic Penal Colony
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been located at a penal
colony in northern Siberia, two weeks after his supporters lost contact
with him when he disappeared from a prison camp outside Moscow. A
spokesperson for Navalny says he resurfaced Monday at the IK-3 penal
colony, nicknamed "Polar Wolf," in the town of Kharp in the Arctic
Circle.

Kira Yarmysh: "We know for sure that in this new colony his conditions
would be even worse than they were before. But the thing is that this
colony is very distant. It is very difficult to access it. And for
lawyers, it will be very difficult to go there and to see Alexei."



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