It’s been said that there are two very different Russias. The one 146 million live in and the version depicted by the anglophone media. Recent polling suggests that most Russians don’t share Western concerns about Alexey Navalny.
Imprisoned Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny has been making news again this week, claiming that he has been denied proper medical treatment. On Wednesday, Amnesty International said that the Russian authorities “may be placing him into a situation of a slow death and seeking to hide what is happening to him.” The authorities were “imposing prison conditions that amount to torture,” Amnesty added. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service denies these charges, saying that Navalny’s health is “stable and satisfactory.”
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