INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit against the penal colony where he is currently serving a nine-year
prison service.Navalny said the IK-6 prison in the Vladimir region hadn't disclosed information about the purchaser of the products that he
The vast majority of them are working
brands like IKEA with products made by inmates, according to media reports.State and municipal companies have signed 600 million rubles ($10
million) of contracts with penal colonies from the Middle Urals region so far this year, a local newspaper wrote.Navalny was transferred to
the maximum-security IK-6 penal colony in June after his prison term was extended to nine years on fraud charges that he and his allies have
February 2021 upon returning to Russia after recovering abroad from a near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on President Vladimir
Putin.The arrest and prison sentence of Putin's most vocal domestic foe sparked mass protests across Russia that were met with a harsh
fled abroad to escape prosecution.
