Despite his new sentence of 9 years in a remote prison colony, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny remains one of Putin's sharpest critics. 'He is thin, he is frail, but he is as fiery as ever,' a close ally says.
Navalny appears in a court hearing at his penal colony. Photo: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
The foundation continues to post investigations into the alleged wealth and corruption of Kremlin insiders, most recently of aAnd Navalny, who has faced harsh treatment in prison and held a three-week hunger strike last year to demand proper medical care, has remained one of Putin's sharpest critics. “He is thin, he is frail, but he is as fiery as ever," Ashurkov said.
"Nobody has any doubt that Russian security services can undertake assassinations in any part of the world. We’ve seen it in Germany, we’ve seen it in U.K. So a Russian prison cell is not a secure place — it’s probably the least secure place.”
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