Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he was “fine” and had been relocated to a new penal colony in the Russian Arctic, after supporters lost track of him for three weeks, raising fears about his safety.
“I now live above the Arctic Circle,” Navalny said in a message on his social media, which is run by a team of supporters from abroad. “The 20 days of my transportation were pretty exhausting, but I’m still in a good mood . . . I’m totally relieved that I’ve finally made it.”
Navalny, 47, a charismatic anti-corruption activist who has been in prison for almost three years, was most recently housed in a penal colony in the Vladimir region of central Russia.