Each day, journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza knew as soon as he heard the opening chord he had only five minutes before prison guards came to take away his pillow and mattress.
Each day, journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza knew as soon as he heard the opening chord he had only five minutes before prison guards came to take away his pillow and mattress CCTV cameras were trained on Kara-Murza around the clock. Even so, he would be taken to an inspection room at 9am and 5pm each day. He had to strip naked while they ran a metal detector over his clothes and underwear.
Like Navalny, he could have stayed in exile abroad — he had lived in America for years and is also a British citizen. Kara-Murza is almost completely disconnected from the outside world. Since he arrived in prison, he has been granted only one 15-minute phone call with his children — five minutes per child
'The meaning of a transfer is the transfer itself. One of the main features of prison life is a constant unpredictability, insecurity and uncertainty not only about tomorrow but even this evening.' Apart from the drone of the loudspeakers, Kara-Murza's only external sources of mental stimulation are letters and books from the prison library. But he finds it hard to read.
Omsk, the city where Kara-Murza is being held, was one of hundreds of sites for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps, established by Stalin in 1929 and better known by its acronym in Russian: 'Gulag'. Russia's camps — particularly in more remote parts of the country where the prison is the main employer — are often staffed by children and grandchildren of those who guarded the gulag. Solzhenitsyn spent years within the gulag and wrote a three-volume 'literary investigation' in which he described the prisoners, starving and exhausted by work, 'eyes oozing with tears, red eyelids... white cracked lips covered with sores.
But Russians became noticeably less fearful after the collapse of the Soviet Union. By 2008 only 17 per cent of the population worried about the return of repression. The children born in these years became known as the 'unflogged' generation, regarding themselves as citizens rather than subjects.
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