INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny said Thursday he has been barred from confidential communications with his lawyers or family at the
President Vladimir Putin.On Wednesday, Navalny said he had been placed in solitary confinement for the fourth time in a month.He was
transferred to the maximum-security IK-6 penal colony in June after his prison term was extended to nine years on fraud charges that he and
his allies have described as politically motivated.Navalny was immediately jailed upon his January 2021 return to Russia from Germany, where
he spent months recovering from his near-fatal poisoning.European chemical weapons experts determined that the opposition figure was
