The Kremlin critic will serve two and a half years.
Critics say the colony is designed to break people.
Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate.
That changed on Sunday when it emerged that the Kremlin s most outspoken critic, Alexei Navalny, who survived a Novichok poisoning attack in 2020 and was imprisoned in February, would be serving out his sentence in a notorious penal colony here.
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Surrounded by a corrugated fence topped with barbed wire, Penal Colony No 2 outside Pokrov some 100km east of Moscow will be the anti-corruption campaigner s home for the next two and a half years.
Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate.
That changed on Sunday when it emerged that the Kremlin s most outspoken critic, Alexei Navalny, who survived a Novichok poisoning attack last year and was imprisoned last month, would be serving out his sentence in a notorious penal colony here.
Surrounded by a corrugated fence topped with barbed wire, Penal Colony No. 2 outside Pokrov some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow will be the anti-corruption campaigner s home for the next two and a half years.
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