*Research director at the CNRS and president of Mémorial France, Nicolas Werth has devoted numerous noted works to the history of the Soviet Union. He published “
Putin Chief Historian
” (Gallimard, coll. “
Tracts
”, 2022).
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LE FIGARO. - The death of Alexei Navalny was feared by many since his imprisonment in Siberia and a previous poisoning attempt. Did the news of his death surprise you?
Nicolas WERTH. –
Unfortunately, the announcement did not really surprise anyone who knows the Russian prison system today and the horror of the treatment meted out to inmates there.
Since his incarceration, Alexeï Navalny had been sent 27 times to the solitary confinement, in very small isolation cells with a cement floor and a simple board to lie on.
The prisoners are subjected to the most total arbitrariness, on the part of the guards but also the detainees.
Because we find this practice which took place in the gulag of mixing policies with…
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