Arkadyostrovsky is the economist russia in eastern europe editor. He says alexeynavalning has been transferred to a maximum security prison now not far from moscow, from another penal colony. Not only he is in the max security prison, which, amongst russian vast prison population, is better known as a torture chamber. Even when he is not working, he is supposed to sit to on a bench, watching russian television, or, as he described it, listening to songs like glory to the f s b and arkadi.
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