Navalny the ‘Escape Risk’ Faces a Campaign of Silence
The Kremlin hopes it can bury Navalny in the prison system while it blackens his name and grinds away at his movement. The Matrosskaya Tishina prison
There was a tragically surreal dimension to the Russian authorities labeling Alexei Navalny an ‘escape risk’ as he sat inside Matrosskaya Tishina’s high walls, but it also suggests something about their likely strategy in dealing with the “Berlin patient.”
Considering that Navalny opted not to request (and no doubt receive) asylum in the West but voluntarily returned to Russia and the inevitability of arrest and imprisonment then the notion that he did so precisely with an eye to escape is so illogical to be Kafkaesque.