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Agence France-Presse

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny quipped that “everything is fine” and made jokes about prison life Wednesday as he sent his first message from a detention centre outside Moscow.
In the message posted on Instagram, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic said he was being held in the Kolchugino detention centre in the Vladimir region northeast of Moscow.
“But everything is fine with me, there’s even a chin-up bar in the exercise yard here,” he said.
Navalny was sentenced last month to 2½ years in a penal colony for breaching parole terms while in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack.


His message was posted after his defence team visited him in the Kolchugino jail, where he is under quarantine.
One of his lawyers, Olga Mikhailova, said he was expected to be held there until his sentence came into force and that he was in a good mood.
“He’s feeling well,” Mikhailova said, adding that Navalny was sharing a cell with two people.
“The cell has nothing except a TV,” she said, adding that he could not receive letters or buy anything in jail.
Russian opposition leader Navalny sent to prison outside Moscow
Mikhailova said it was not yet clear where Navalny would eventually be serving out his full sentence.
A Moscow official had earlier said it would be at a prison in the town of Pokrov in the Vladimir region called Penal Colony No 2.
In the lighthearted message, Navalny said he was not aware of what was happening in the world and has not yet managed to get any books from the jail library.
“That’s why the only entertainment is haute cuisine experiments,” he said, adding he and his cellmates were drying bread to make croutons.


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The opposition figure jokes about prison life, talking about ‘haute cuisine experiments’ at the Kolchugino detention centre where he is being held
Navalny has been sentenced to 2½ years in a penal colony for breaching parole terms while in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack



The opposition figure jokes about prison life, talking about ‘haute cuisine experiments’ at the Kolchugino detention centre where he is being held.


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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says ‘everything fine’ in first message from jail

The opposition figure jokes about prison life, talking about ‘haute cuisine experiments’ at the Kolchugino detention centre where he is being held Navalny has been sentenced to 2½ years in a penal colony for breaching parole terms while in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack

The opposition figure jokes about prison life, talking about ‘haute cuisine experiments’ at the Kolchugino detention centre where he is being held

Navalny has been sentenced to 2½ years in a penal colony for breaching parole terms while in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack