The Russian opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin is serving a sentence in a maximum-security penal colony where he reportedly lost 8kg in weight in just over two weeks.
Alexei Navalny has had his sarcastic demands to Russian prison administrators of a pet kangaroo, a balalaika, and a bottle of moonshine liquor denied.
The list of outlandish requests included a megaphone for a prisoner in a nearby cell"so he can yell even louder", a massage chair and an award of the highest rank in karate for an inmate who"killed a man with his bare hands". Navalny, a critic of Vladimir Putin, released his exchanges with the prison administration on Twitter, and explained how it gave him some"entertainment".
wrote:"When you are sitting in a punishment isolation cell and have little entertainment, you can have fun with correspondence with the administration."The 46-year-old expressed mock outrage at not being allowed to keep a kangaroo in his cell. His Twitter post read:"Here is the most important and egregious thing. I just can't let this pass... I will continue to fight for my inalienable right to have a kangaroo."
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