Kremlin foe Navalny says he’s been put in a punishment cell in an Arctic prison colony
www.seattletimes.com
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials at the Arctic prison colony where he is serving a 19-year term have isolated him in a tiny punishment cell over a minor infraction.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    920·
    10 months ago

    a punishment cell in an Arctic prison colony

    Why not just write “Siberian gulag” like a normal person?

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      10 months ago

      Gulag is a labor camp, we don’t know for sure this is a labor camp, it might just be solitary confident and torture.

        • MindlessZ@lemm.ee
          11·
          10 months ago

          A prison system of labor camps. It’s literally the definition and part of the Russian name for them.

          Gulag, (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”), system of Soviet labour camps…

    • Omega_Haxors
      2·
      10 months ago

      Because despite what you and many other think, the cold war ended decades ago.