Alexei Navalny, Putin’s most prominent (living) opponent has been “lost” in the Russian prison system. The alarm went off in Alexei Navalni’s team seven days ago, after he did not appear at a hearing from the prison east of Moscow where he is serving almost 20 years of his sentence for “extremism.”

The Russian authorities, first, alleged technical problems and then they made their lawyers go around and ended up saying that they didn’t know where they were. “We have to find him as soon as possible, because now he himself is alone and in the hands of those who once tried to kill him,” he maintains. Kira Yarmysh, Nalvalni spokesperson. Navalny’s people fear that someone will try to finish the job by transferring him to one of the worst Russian prisons.

Alexei Navalny is a prominent activist, scourge of corruption in Russia and collector of political condemnations. Furthermore, he was one step away from death in 2020, poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok while flying over Siberia.

And all this 4 months before Putin’s possible re-election, a campaign that they had promised to agitate. Matthew Miller, spokesman for the US State Department maintains that they are “gravely concerned about the fate of Mr. Navalny… and we remind the Russian Government that it is responsible for what happens to him.”

For its part, and from the Kremlin They answer that he is a “convict and, as such, his fate escapes them. Whom they cannot, nor do they want, to search for. Literally.”