“We found Alexey Navalny. Now it is (in the penal colony) IK-3 in the Kharp settlement.” This was written by spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh on X after there had been no news from Navalny for days. “His lawyer saw him today,” he adds, “Alexey is fine.” Nothing has been heard of Navalny, who is now in this penal colony in the far north of Russia, 2,000 kilometers from Moscow, since December 6th heard more. All that became known was that he was no longer held in the Ik-6 colony in the Vladimir region. On December 18, Navalny, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for “extremism,” did not appear via video link at a court hearing in the city of Kovrov, as the dissident's associates reported, fueling fears about his fate.
As Navalny found out, he is in a prison in the Russian Arctic. “He was transferred to the IK-3 penal colony”