Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.
Alexei Navalny’s remarks during a court recess at IK-3 Penal Colony “Polar Wolf”
The thought that Putin is satisfied with having thrown me into a barracks in the Far North...
By every conceivable and inconceivable law, I should have been transferred out of Melekhovo...
“We burned it on an iron saucer.”
On October 30, 1974, political prisoners Kronid Lyubarsky and Alexei Murzhenko in…
The state system in four sentences. 1. The work cell in the SHIZO (punishment isolation cell) is...
Political prisoner Gorinov will be angry with me for this post.
A classic case of celebrating too soon.
I’ve got sensational news for you, friends. The psycho has started talking. It’s great…
Today is my birthday. And when I woke up this morning, I joked to myself that in…
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,
“Yeeees, Alexei, you’ve really done it this time—you’ve committed all sorts of crimes,” I said…
I was worried I’d wear you out with repetitive posts along the lines of “I served 15 days in…”
Let me tell you a striking story about prison psychology and “rehabilitation”...
This is how cabbage and 21 rubles 50 kopecks motivate people!
They say children grow up fast. But younger brothers grow up especially fast!
Ah, my luxurious, elite, nearly two-month stay in the “good” cell…
I laugh at least three times a day, even when I’m completely alone in my cell. It’s all because of…
I’m reading Marchenko—the Soviet dissident who spent half his life in prison and died in…
In two years in prison, my only truly original story is about…
So, after all, I did manage to earn my tenth stint in the punishment cell last year. My...
Twitter day. 9 January 2023