Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny located in a distant penal colony several weeks after his last known communication.

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been located within a prison facility situated north of the Arctic Circle, as confirmed by his associates on Monday. This revelation comes nearly three weeks after losing communication with Navalny. Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is currently serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges. However, his legal representatives have expressed their inability to establish contact with him since December 6. Previously held in Russia's Vladimir region, approximately 140 miles east of Moscow, Navalny's spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he is now incarcerated in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region, even further north.






 The heightened level of isolation from the external world in this new facility was emphasized by Navalny's chief strategist, Leonid Volkov, on X, indicating the extreme difficulty in reaching the colony and even sending letters.
Prior to this recent revelation, advisors to Alexei Navalny had issued warnings about the opposition leader's deteriorating health conditions. He was reportedly held in a cell lacking proper ventilation and subjected to food deprivation. It's noteworthy that Navalny had previously fallen victim to a poisoning incident involving a military-grade nerve agent in the Siberian city of Tomsk in August 2020. Following the attack, he was urgently transported to Berlin for medical treatment. After spending over a week in a coma and successfully recovering from the attempted assassination, Navalny made his return to Moscow on January 17, 2021. However, his re-entry was met with immediate arrest at passport control, based on allegations of violating the terms of his parole.
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