da. david roar. it s not good, the situation is very bleak. navalny as we know as you illustrated op your studio floors is in a very small cell. he doesn t have access to medical care. we know he s very sick. it s very challenging and we are all worried to say the least. wow. but at the end of the day we know that the man s resolve is extraordinarily strong, he is a courageous guy, his spine is made of iron, his character is the last i was able to communicate with him was intact and his sense of humor was intact. what do you worry about most? physical or mental? both? he is in a gulag, it s cold, it s winter, they don t provide him with winter clothing. it took him four days to get hot water as a small remedy for his illness. so this is what i worry about.
and well. today the most common type of prison in russia is a course of labor colony. also known as a penal colony. last, year a russian reporter spoke to the covered the grim conditions inside this. commies they told us that regular readings by guards, persons medical supplies are routinely confiscated on their arrival in prison. contacts have to be gravely ill before they are admitted to the medical bay. medical staff to little more than handout painkillers. the former prisoners accused medical staff of turning a blind eye to brutality toward in means. under russian law, inmates have to work often forced into 12 to 14 hours of manual labor poor day. by most accounts, all of us has changed in the russian correctional system since the gulag. all interchanged is its name. even the types of prisoners and
fate griner was facing, this is an almost miraculous outcome. she is spared the russian gulag that is still in place even three decades at the d.c. empire has crashed. griner s release is a cause for celebration. the mission continues to be get other americans out of containment in russian, including former marine paul whelan. i spoke with his brother last night, here is a portion of the conversation. i wonder if you think that the attention of britney s return, who can help pressure the white house and the kremlin to move quickly on post case? at the care months anybody in the white house who will take a moment the breed, there is a little bit of recess going on as they try to figure out how to recalibrate to bring paul home. i think they were trying after the substantial proposal that was made in the summer, did not work out, so i think that they need to come up with something new, but i think that they are
the offenses bear resemblance of the past. prisoners of the gulag range from petty criminals to political emmys of the communist regime. beyond hind bars in the modern penal colonies are russian dissidents that criticize vladimir putin s rule, and in some cases, american basketball player. or american marines. the wnba player s and britney griner spent ten months in russian detention. she s been about one month of that in a labor colony. right now, the extent of the conditions that griner faced while in prison is yet unclear. she was released on thursday in a high-profile present changes the u.s. released russian arms dealer, victor bout. the six foot nine inch athletes crime was possession of a vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. as for viktor bout, once nicknamed the merchant of death, he was serving a 25 year sentence for conspiring to sell sentiments of dollars worth of weapons. which american officials say we re going to be used against
corporate punishment, medical neglect, psychological pressure, these are conditions you might expect natives a prisoner in the infinite solely be it gelotte. it s certainly not what you would picture on the european continent. but, some 30 years after the ball the serving union, conditions like that still exist in russian prisons. the gulag refers to the soviet forced labor system that was set up by vladimir lenin. but really reached its peak under joe s stalin. the gulag was a brutal instrument of political repression and torture. prisoners were forced to work on grueling construction and mining projects, often extreme weather and without food or water. millions died of exhaustion, starvation, or disease. and others were simply executed. the gulag operated until shortly after stolen start in 1953. but the spirit iselin isn t least and russia s modern correctional system is alive