
Twitter day. 6 January 2015

Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.

Twitter day. 14 February 2024

The singer Shaman appeared after I was already seated, so I neither saw nor heard him, but…
Alexei Navalny’s remarks during a court recess at IK-3 Penal Colony “Polar Wolf”

I am your new Ded Moroz (the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus).

Twitter day. 26 December 2023

Prison is the best place to train your endurance. Here, they are constantly trying to...

Question: what do all inmates have in common? A harsh disposition? No.

It’s been more than 1,000 days since I set off on my space journey.

I continue collecting the abbreviations used in the “Punishment” section of prison regulations. U...

Political prisoner Gorinov will be angry with me for this post.

A classic case of celebrating too soon.

Lucky you. You can talk about a beaver lodge without worrying. No one will…

Who do you think is in this photo?

When you're sitting in the punishment cell (SHIZO, a Russian solitary confinement punishment unit) and have very little entertainment, correspondence can become entertainment...

"If they celebrate Purim in the Kremlin,

Guess who the champion of listening to Putin’s speeches is? Who listens to them for hours and…

Let me tell you a striking story about prison psychology and “rehabilitation”...

Important (for English, scroll right):

This is how cabbage and 21 rubles 50 kopecks motivate people!

Twitter day. 11 April 2023

Twitter day. 7 February 2023

I’m reading Marchenko—the Soviet dissident who spent half his life in prison and died in…