INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
in the Vladimir region where the trial is taking place
closed doors, Mediazona reported.Journalists had been barred from attending the court session in person and were watching the hearing in a
Anatoly Navalny told AFP journalists at the maximum security IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo, 250 kilometers east of Moscow.Navalny faces
that I am just as condemned as everyone else
If I'm just like everyone else, judge me like everyone else," Navalny said.Prosecutor Nadezhda Tikhonova said access to the courtroom had
Yarmysh wrote on Twitter.Navalny, who has complained of health problems since being jailed and experienced major weight loss, said that
prosecutors had provided him with 3,828 pages describing all the crimes he is alleged to have committed while in prison."Although it's
clear from the size of the tomes that I am a sophisticated and persistent criminal, it's impossible to find out what exactly I am accused
of," Navalny quipped.Navalny was imprisoned upon his January 2021 return to Russia after recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with what
groups as "extremist" organizations later that year, prompting nearly all of his close aides to leave the country.AFP contributed reporting.
