They have two-meter cells and are stripped twice a day: Life of Putin’s opponents in a Siberian colony The awakening comes at 5 o’clock in the morning to the sound of the Russian anthem on the loudspeaker.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian journalist and opposition politician.was charged with treason and spreading disinformation about the Russian military and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in April 2023. However, with sub-zero temperatures and a two-meter wide cell, life in a Russian maximum security colony IK-6 In Omsk the opponent had a hard time.

The awakening came at 5:00 am, when the Russian anthem played over the loudspeaker. Vladimir then had five minutes until the guards removed his pillow and mattress. At about 5:20 a.m., the metal structure of the bed was locked and the objector could no longer sit on it.

The chamber was five meters long and 1.80 meters wide. In the middle there was a table and a bench, screwed to the floor. In accordance with Daily mailThe only things he was allowed to keep were a mug, a toothbrush, a pair of slippers and a towel.

Later, in the morning, food was placed through a small hatch in the cell door. The rest of the time, Vladimir was allowed to walk for 90 minutes. However, temperatures below freezing often prevent the excursion from taking that long.

Every day, around 9:00 and 17:00, the Russian opposition politician had to strip naked so that security could pass by with a metal detector on his clothes.

According to the same source, every time he was approached, he had to identify himself in the official formula. State your name, date of birth, the terms of the articles under which you were sentenced, and the start and end dates of your sentence.

Following the death of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s best-known opposition leader, in a similar penal colony in the Arctic, Kara-Murza became one of the country’s most high-profile political prisoners.

Like Navalny, Vladimir became a victim of suspected poisoning with the toxic substance Novichok. He fell into a coma twice, in 2015 and 2017. As a result, he suffers from polyneuropathy, a nerve disease that causes numbness in his legs.

On January 26 of this year, Vladimir was transferred to another correctional colony – IK-7, also in Siberia.

The measure was taken, authorities said, because of a “serious administrative violation” committed by an opponent who missed a warning sign that he said never existed.