Of all of Putin’s tortures, this 5am daily routine at Alexei Navalny’s Arctic jail might be worst

Alexei Navalny, who is languishing in a remote Arctic Circle jail, says he is now forced to wake up to the Russian national anthem followed by a pop song by a pro-Vladimir Putin singer every day at 5am. The fierce Kremlin critic has been locked away in the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. Mr Navalny, 47, has kept up an unceasing campaign against the Kremlin from behind bars. He says he has been poisoned, handed a long prison term in one of Russia’s toughest prisons on trumped-up charges aimed at keeping him out of politics, and locked up in a cell where he can only pace back and forth for 11 steps. On top of all this, he now has to listen to a pro-Putin pop song by Yaroslav Dronov, who performs under the stage name Shaman, daily at the crack of dawn. “The singer Shaman appeared on stage when I was already imprisoned, so I could neither see nor listen to his music. But I know that he is now Putin’s main singer. And he has the most popular song: ‘I’m Russian’,” Mr Navalny said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexei-navalny-arctic-jail-russia-shaman-b2483045.html

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