INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he is suing his maximum security prison for not giving him winter boots, as
46-year-old is serving a nine-year sentence outside Vladimir, a town around 230 kilometers east of Moscow, where temperatures Monday dipped
to -6 degrees Celsius.Navalny said the prison had already switched to winter clothes for "weeks," but guards had refused to give him
between not going outside at all or getting sick, which is "strongly discouraged" in prison.The anti-corruption campaigner, who survived an
attempt to poison him with Novichok in 2021, added that he had previously fallen ill there."My exercise yard is an ice-covered concrete well
said on Monday that he had recently received "a lot of letters lately about depression, gloom and apathy." He called on Russians to "cheer
up.""Finish your pumpkin latte and go do something to bring Russia closer to freedom," he wrote, in his usual tongue-in-cheek
