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(FILES) Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link from his penal colony during court hearings over the extremism criminal case against him at the Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow on June 22, 2023. Russia has brought fresh charges against Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition politician already serving a 19-year sentence, he said on December 1, 2023, as Moscow intensifies its crackdown on dissent amid the Ukraine offensive. Navalny galvanised huge nationwide protests in Russia before he was jailed in 2021 on fraud charges after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a poison attack that he and independent investigators say was carried out by the Russian state. Authorities have now accused him of vandalism, which could add up to another three years to his sentence, Navalny said, citing a letter he had received from Russia's Investigative Committee in prison. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said he was "fine" after a "pretty exhausting" 20-day transfer from his prison to a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine. I'm totally relieved that I've finally made it," he wrote on X, adding: "I'm still in a good mood, as befits a Santa Claus", referring to his winter clothing and beard.
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