WSJ: Navalny Found Alive in Siberian Penal Camp: Russia’s Future Clouded

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from a penal colony in the Vladimir Region during a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow in April. PHOTO: YULIA MOROZOVA/REUTERS

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alexei-navalny-siberia-prison-polar-wolf-vladimir-putin-russia-9a6c49a1

“Some residual good news for courage in 2023: Alexei Navalny is alive and has been located in a distant prison colony. His team says the leading opponent of Vladimir Putin’s despotism was moved without announcement to a prison called the Polar Wolf in the remote Arctic region of Yamalo-Nenets. This a frozen, isolated area known for some of the most brutal conditions in the Putin-era gulag.”