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- Vladimir Pereverzin was imprisoned for seven years in some of Russia's most notorious jails and penal colonies. He tells Business Insider about life in Russian jails and prisons, including details about police interrogations, solitary confinement, and forced labor. He describes the conditions in prison camps, the 'thieves code', and Russian prison tattoos.
Pereverzin worked in Cyprus for Yukos, an oil company owned by the billionaire businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In 2005, Khodorkovsky was sentenced on charges of fraud, which were widely considered to be politically motivated. Russian prosecutors accused other Yukos executives alongside Khodorkovsky, Pereverzin among them. He was incarcerated at several of the penal colonies that also held the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
His book about his experiences, "The Prisoner: Behind Bars in Putin's Russia," was published in English in March 2024.
Find his book here:
www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Behind-Bars-Putins-Russia/dp/1802472517
This video was edited by a Business Insider reporter who chose to remain anonymous to protect their safety.
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - The Moscow Arrest
02:16 - A Notorious Jail
04:29 - Prison Transfers
05:50 - The Penal Colony
08:06 - The Thieves' Code
10:08 - Prison Labor
12:11 - The Gulags
12:58 - The Guards
17:23 - Threats
20:16 - The Aftermath
23:55 - The Bigger Picture
26:10 - Credits
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This guy's calm toughness is incredible.
He makes it look easy.
@@eugenetswongRussians are very tough
No one will understand that feeling of getting out....there's nothing like it in the world litterally like lifting a 500lb weight off your back and then the fear and anxiety kicks in
I understand it bud there’s a lot more like me too so I wouldn’t say no one
We’re was you in prison? Don’t tell me the uk 🇬🇧
@@user-sz8km9dy5v prison is prison, no matter where it is. lack of freedom is lack of freedom; being confined to a jail cell is just the same wherever you are in the world. some are worse but none are a walk in the park.
Larry Lawton talked about how when he got out he couldn't even order a sandwich. It was sensory overload because of all the choices. Then the halfway house was a horrible joke and he opted to go to prison/jail and use it as a halfway house instead.
Hundreds of thousand of people , probably millions understand actually lol that’s kind of the problem
we never realize how good we have it untill u hear about mother russia
Thank God the America prison system is a much better example for everyone else to follow.
America ain’t no paradise either
True but atleast they wont randomly send innocents to jail. Like russia. Having wrong opinion means you eighter die or be locked up.
You cant really defend russia with whataboutism.
why should criminals have it good? Apart from that, the West is far more degenerate, where perversions are celebrated as the norm
@@lucawolf1 Whilst that's true, that's like saying "It's no picnic having a cold!" to someone who's dying of cancer. Neither is nice, but they're not comparable.
6 men share one shower head once a week for 15 minutes to wash themselves and wash clothes. Damn.
Luck it’s cold there so they don’t have to really worry 😂
@@humanOilslick cold when? in the winter? of course it is. in the summer? it's hot. or do you think russia is engulfed in snow all year round?
@@hurmane.8593 most year 😂
@@humanOilslick tell me you've never been/lived in russia without telling me
Nothing new unfortunately. Us old farts have seen and read the same interviews from Soviet prisoners, many many times. Going all the way back to the revolution.
It's important to keep bringing it up, so the younger generations learn too.
Most of those were debunked btw. Solzhenitsyn’s wife later admitted it was mostly fabricated. The Soviet Union instituted the greatest increase in living standards and industrial power the world has ever seen.
Bringing it up doesn't help either.
At the end of the day they had been allowed to continue terrorize half of europe after WW2 despite the fact that they were the same as the third reich and would have given a lot to work together up to the point they arrived in berlin.
And who can blame a system that never changes if it always worked out.
"Learn".. Reading your ((newspapers)) is not learning.
Seems the russkibots are as effective and competent as their army 😅
@@VikingTeddy Go worship your rabbis American
Mr. Pereverzin was no mere mid-manager employee of Yukos.
He was instrumental in the acquisition of Yukos by the bank Menatep, which Khodorkovsky was Chairman of. He personally acted for Menatep on 8 December 1995 in the controversial purchase of Yukos.
I'm not saying he is guilty as charged, however it is somewhat disingenuous for him to make out that he was a mere pawn.
Exactly. And to be honest, there was nothing honest about Russian business practices on that level in the 1990s
Exactly lol this is propaganda
My experience of a similar country is that the mentality is : everybody is guilty of something to a degree, which is a useful, justice can never be wrong
+15 rubles
There is love in Russia with creation of documents, because even if facts are against documents, documents will survive and maybe someone will treat them as facts. So we will never know.
Shame on you guys for not linking his book. I would read this book. I’m glad he mentioned he wrote one.
Meanwhile Anders Breivik:
*sues norway for inhumane treatment and asks for a playstation*
That speaks volumes on Norway as a country.
You're missing the point though
@@DomnulSarb i have no point
a) He's being kept in solitary confinement for the maximum amount of years possible by Norwegian law. Solitary confinement has officially been recognized as a form of torture (his isn't for a variety of reasons). By Norwegian standards, his sentence is very harsh.
b) Norway is a country that sets higher standards for itself than a russian penal colony.
c) Norway has, on a worldwide scale, an extremely low recidivism rate (rate at which criminals end up back in prison after release). They also save tons of money and bureaucracy on not running a prison system that is designed to suck.
Clearly their system is working.
That's because the Norwegian jail system has a purpose of rehabilitating prisoners and either make them into functional members of society, or keep them locked in for a long period of time. It's what prison should be by a definition.
Russian system however, is designed to keep the ruling class in tighter control, and the prisoner is not to be considered a person.... So, yeah.... It's damn near impossible to even consider humanity as an approach.
I always find it tragicomical when the leaders of the countries, corrupted to the point of absolute debauchery, talk about democracy... Democracy can only be achieved by a truly moral human being. In a corrupted society, it's a paradox and a mockery by itself.
See also: "Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag"
70 years later, and so little has changed in the Russian prison system
Russia will never change. It's basically an enormous self-regulating and self-perpetuating dysgenics experiment.
Didn't they made a movie about it
Omg, there is a whole elaborate prison culture. Not just tattoos, but giving party before you leave, burning prison clothes afterwards, etc.
Well Pereverzin said many times he is innocent, but he could easily share if he knew Khodorkovsky, if Khodorkovsky was also innocent and why does he think so - what was he doing in that company and how did people work there - he is now in free country so he should say how does the communism arise - its now in france, canada and biden's mind.
@@boris2997Yes, I think it was a TV movie from the early 80’s
I’m glad this man is able to move on and still have an upbeat personality.
It’s such a crime this keeps happening and sadly, I don’t see this ever stopping anytime soon.
I feel so sorry for this man...terrible to be serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Unfortunetly in Russia not much has changed since the USSR days, maybe except fashion and technology...
Didn't commit ehh?
200 billion stolen from Russia and laundered via european danske banks.
Nothing to see here... Everyone is innocent and who knew too much are murdered by Western countries.
The communism went away, and the authoritarianism didn’t.
@@BridgesDontFly The prosecution literally didn't even present any evidence against him except a labor book saying he worked for Yukos previously. No records of his sales, no proof that any embezzlement occurred. Nothing. He had never met the CEO of the company or even the other manager they accused of being his co-conspirator. The crime itself was literally impossible for him to have done because he didn't ever have access to 13 billion dollars worth of sales of crude oil in the time he worked there. The case was a sham, it certainly wouldn't meet the standards for proof in the U.S. How would you feel if my only evidence for accusing YOU of a crime was that you worked at the same company as a murderer?
@@brody3166
This happens often in the US.
PLEASE Make an episode of rehabilitation camps
yes,this one is called documentary .bravo .
Interesting and simple. They needed a fall guy. To officially acquire the oil.
It’s never that simple
Russian prisons no joke
Reminds me of that scene in "The Wire".
"This is not prison. This is nothing"
-- Sergei
I don’t need you. I don’t need f***ing canteen
This is just one of the semi-high-profile political revenge cases.
I once got jailed overnight for walking near a half-empty beer bottle. The cops have arrest quotas, and the end of the month was coming up, so they just grabbed me and said, "That beer must be yours."
They held me overnight in the most rank cell I've ever seen. There literally was a piece of dry faeces on the floor, in a cell 4x4 feet. I tried to stand and not touch anything for as long as I could, but eventually, tiredness got the better of me, so I had to sit down on the concrete bench.
I left there with scabies.
In the morning, they told me to sign for a fine for public intoxication, and I'd be able to walk out.
Otherwise, I'd be held in that cell for 15 days until a court date.
That’s crazy and sorry you had that happen to you. It’s hard to imagine people so callous that they have no problem arresting an innocent stranger. Why is it allowed that you have to wait for 10 days to get arraigned? Was this in the US? What state?
@@klettersteig599 it was in Russia🤷♂️ they can legally hold you for up to 15 days in jail before seeing a judge
I love this Channel, pls make a Video about a Chinese Jail
No one ever gets out or they would.
@@oregonsdank thats scary af i think its look like a SquidGame 💀
I need more videos on western jails to balance out that propaganda.
@@tyrese21kendrick49I mean have you ever heard about Chinese prison? Nobody talking about them.
excellent video
This guy was more than just a middle manager, a lot more
Just ordered his book. What a story!
Great narration
My name is Vladimir, but everyone calls me Georgio
For a second there I thought the thumbnail said “schizo guard”
Cheeky clickbait. They knew what they were doing lol.
watched it through the whole way, what a wonderful story honestly
2:00 Handsome guy😌 Seems like a cool guy from the interview
Given how criminal Yukos was, as well as any major Russian company in the privatization era, I doubt this guy was 100% innocent. Yukos was caught commiting major fraud to avoid taxes. I bet he's right that he was basically a politically motivated scapegoat for Oligarchs, but it's impossible to overstate how crooked these companies are and without knowing exactly what he did there it's not hard to believe a mere manager could be involved in the crime and end up offered up as the mastermind to save the real top dog.
Not saying this dude is lying 100%, but this doesn't pass the sniff test when you read up on the post-privatization era of Russia and how corrupt the new private companies were.
not true, this dude has nothing to do with oligarchs and workin now as a track driver in Germany...
How criminal Yukos was? Could you explain? Rosneft under management Putin's friends paid less taxes as Yukos paid, when oil prices were at least twice lower! You know why?
Random Cat: Yep.
Random Spider: The way it goes around.
Non-Random Skidrow Tramp: Let's have some bitter tea...
Very interesting story!
I wonder why the colonies were so nervous about the complaints, couldn't they censor the mail?
Prisoners give them to their lawyers, or directly to the court.
@@CtOlaf I'm surprised they're allowed to do that. At least in that aspect, it seems like a fair justice system.
@@ShermanT.PotterFair???😂😂😂
So Navalny was treated kind of fairly?
@@Asger21 "At least in that aspect", meaning specifically regarding complaints. Proper grammar is supposed to lessen contextual issues such as this, but the reader has to pick up on them. :)
Well, the issue is that you have competitors: Prosecutor's Office, may be the Investigative Committee and so on. Ideally they would be glad to compromise another law enforcement agency in the race of power. But practically, especially in the poor regions, local law enforcement agencies can be intertwined by the corruption, so these complaints would not be a big problem. But there's another issue: it's still a bureaucracy. And you have to deal with this paper, and even if you could just throw it off, it still annoys you
他英文真好，基本都能听清楚，口音并不影响理解
It's certainly better than yours😅
@@axeavier that went right over your head didn't it.
你好同志
Scary stuff
Torturing prisoners is not good. Especially when a prisoner who is innocent.
*Laughs in american prison*
Its normal in russia, always has been
@@JohnDoe-lx5rm While not quite on the same level, the USA has some terrible prisons too by first world standards..
@@zivkovicable it does. Somewhere deep in south too, of course. But overthere is everywhere like that. And whether you are guilty or not if you are put in prison they will literally beat the confession out of you, that us if some powerful people or just people with food connections want you gona for whatever reason, that is a common practice there. Just the same way rhis guy was out there because someone else wanned rhst business or wanned to steal that money and they jist made him a scapegoat. Everything is for sale and i mean Everything. You have 0 rights and you are not human there, you are just meat. In most of the places its like exactly like this. I mean you know what they did to the guy who was trying to replace putin right? Put in prison and ended up killing him, poisoning. russia is not a good place to be in prison or live there. I hope the send more of my tax money to help Ukraine to withstand their invasion and their regime. Russia basically is like north korea but with little more freedom.
Innocent? 😂 He was working on the one of the worst and bloodiest oligarch - Khodorkovsky
😭😭😭 nah convicted for stealing ALL the oil is crazy
Wasn’t there a movie based on the downfall of yukos oil company and this guy?
I enjoy these programs but kind of wish the format was a bit different…the constant switching to the VHS style chapter breaks is distracting (for future reference)
the VHS timer/PLAY effect is kinda silly, at least change the time when u edit the cuts ...
Luckily for him, he never got near any upper story windows.
Eipstein would have been glad to hear your story.
Remember that scene in "The Wire"?
"This is not prison. This is nothing."
--- Sergie
Hahaha! How long could you stay in "not a prizon"? one or three minutes?
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c It's a line from a TV show. A Russian guy is saying this about American prison. Never mind 🤫
@@user-jq9nv8ys1creading comprehension non existent
Would take everything this guy says with a very large pinch of salt.
Undisputed movies gave me all the info I need to know about russian prisons
😂 I never seen past the first one with Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames.
@@Nick_B_Bad te second one is pretty solid as well
The reel noises between each cut really take away from the intensity of the interview.
This reminds me so much of what it was like to be a student at Pilgrim’s Rest Boarding School in Kentucky. Children can be tortured but can’t get lawyers.
I feel bad for this man Russian prisons are tough he seems like a decent guy
We need prisons like this in the uk, criminals have nothing to fear with the current system
The Russian bots and UIs love these videos 🤣
it makes them crazy!
This is why i respect the Voryz V Zakone. They started their organization because of the hardships that they endured in prison.
of course you found a person that was sentenced for crime they “didn’t commit”
The balls on this man to get jumped on purpose by 5 people just to get transfered. Hope he is having a good life now
Getting out of county jail after 10 months in America is still the best feeling in the world that I've felt.
Mogs me, I didn't leave my house once in 2024.
He's telling ALL OF US, to BE THANKFUL FOR ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE NOW. life, health, food, warm shelter, comfort, love, Etc... ❤ thanks ❤
I'm always impressed when i hear someone who lives outside the English speaking world gain a perfectly working mastery of my country's language. I could never do that. Retaining their native langua accent makesxit all the more enjoyable to hear.
seems very vanilla. as he said at the end this story is nothing compared to some of the tortures and rapes used in russian colonies on systematic basis.
Overpaid Russian adds flooding the comments.
Yes, and payment is good
The troll farms are out in full force 😂
But all of your comments here is about Russia. Who's the bot?
I assume he's living far away from russia as we speak.
he should be lucky he wasn't put into jail later ..as Putin still had a conscience then and was not as powerful as he is now.
imagine now what they have to endure ...frontline or gulag which is better?
I can't believe I hadn't heard about Navalny's death until now. I knew he'd come close several times but I never heard he actually died this year. How sad.
Navalny was murdered by prisoners...
have you seen his ads from like 15 years ago?
Navalny the MI6 agent? That guy?
How could you not have heard of Alexei Navalny's death until now?
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c he was murdered by Putin
If it wasnt for Russias tough prison system we would not had the chance to hear this amazing story
I mean for actual hardcore criminals this is fair treatment but they should just like, stop jailing innocent people.
Makes you wonder why someone would commit crimes in Russia seeing that the prisons are so bad .
you dont have to commit anything. Being in the wrong place , in the wrong time is enough to destroy you
The same thing could be said anywhere. People know breaking the law has the consequence of prison - but it doesnt stop them.
In places where the death penalty is a possibility or a mandated sentence for certain crimes, people still commit those crimes.
Most crimes are either committed in the heat of the moment or by people who assume they won't get caught.
And some of my friends wonder why I hate Russia and think it's a terrible place. No matter what problems I might have in the U.S it's vastly better than what happens over there. I feel so bad for Vladimir and his story hurts to listen to.
and now it's right back to what he describes if not worse. his statement that prisoners are not humans is the same as the rusian military and their soldiers.
I have the same issue with some people not understanding my dislike of Russia .
Ignorance is bliss. American jails are even worse.
@@davsickler3978Rarely, US prisons nowadays you can have cellphones and commodities. Now if you’re poor in prison in the US that’s rough.
Pretty ignorant to hate a country you have never stepped a foot in. By this logic i would have to hate the US after watching Goodfellas and playing GTA.
Yukos was shady as any other company in Russia at that time. If you where a business man in those times, it meant you had direct ties to organized crime.
Not true! The more shady oil company in Russia were Rosneft and Surgutnentegaz. Yukos was the first company to be published the ownershiship structure and audit by PWC.
Also, Khodorkovsky at least built kindergartens, sport fields, and roads.
That was one of the reasons he was targeted: he was becoming quite popular among the populace, and as one of the most wealthy people in the country, could potentially fund his own successful political campaign.
@@AeSyrNation He killed a city mayor which tried to force him to pay the workers who were starving without any payment for 6 months at that time.
the mayor also went on the hunger strike with the workers.
>Petukhov went on a hunger strike with demands: to initiate a criminal case in connection with the failure of Yukos to pay taxes in large amounts in 1996-1998, to remove the chief of the tax inspectorate of Nefteyugansk and the head of the tax inspection of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, to pay back the accumulated arrears in the amount of 1.2 trillion non-denominated rubles, stop interfering in the activities of local authorities of Nefteyugansk by Yukos
>A few days after the end of the hunger strike, on the morning of June 26, 1998, on his way to work, Petukhov was shot near the city administration building. His guard was also wounded in the shooting. The murder occurred on the birthday of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which many observers saw as a gift for the Russian businessman's birthday
If it makes you feel better there are people in America doing 10-25 years for having a little bit of weed
You think they just let people go for weed possession in Russia?;😂
@@John-mf6ky ya if you’re an oligarch
@@John-mf6ky Usually its a fine, it depends how much you have.
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If it makes you feel better, the US prison system is increasingly privatized and treated as a for-profit organization using slave labour. 🦆👍🦆
Well, it was nice knowing this guy.
If he's in an american channel he's probably very safe.
This guy's prison experience seems like daycare compared to the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in the Arctic that Navalny was tortured and killed in.
38 seconds in and it seems way more horrible than american prisons
everyone jailed claims that they are innocent! Never met so many "wrongly accused" folks under one roof, during my short stint.
i am starting to get used to people wanting to help me lol for some reason im just still upset over my younger years. for whatever reason the help i was getting just wasn't helping at all
He just said “this is how crime works “
I thought you never committed any crime?
😂😂😂
Is it not obvious, that in this case the crime was commited by the state authorities ?
Hahaha! What a clever comment!
You're not the brightest bulb in the drawer are you?
0:24 like the other guy who was said truth against america? assange
Every prisoner ever:
I'm innocent, bro.
Where did you heard such a boolsheet? Have you been in prison?
This info is aged now, Russia changed its penal system a lot in the last 5-10 years. The thieve's code etc, prisons ran by thieves, this is mostly a thing of the past, the authorities are in charge in almost every prison nowadays.
Everyone hated them until 2020, for some weird reason.
The oil company broke the cardinal sin of not cutting Putin in on the deals.
I expect they work like normal prisons, bad guys go in…good guys come out
Excellent work 👏
Next do Guantanamo bay 👍
great project.
except this interview is the most uninteresting and uninformative as it can be. most of the time spent on repeating of being wrongly convicted for political reasons, and so on. guess, being a guilty person still afraid of being caught saying true reasons for incarceration.
He discribe all details in his book, where every single word is true...
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c innocence project is waiting for his application 😅
and here comes all the americans to tell how wonderful the US prison system is and its the best in the world.
"Things that didn't happen for 300, Alex."
Guantanamo Bay, do a video on that as well that's actually how crime works
sounds a lot like most jails to me truth be known. The comment about America being a free society comparatively. Yes, much to the dismay of the owners.
I completely disagree with you. I used to be a correctional officer. None of that stuff would be legal federally, or in the state that I worked at you would be arrested and fired right away for beating up inmates for no reason also in the United States, you have a trial Before you’re sent to prison. All the things he’s talking about or not legally allowed in the United States.
Russian jails are certainly not like most jails, not in the civilized world anyway, but then again, we all know Russians aren't civilized.
All background video footage seems at least 20 years old
If you don’t have resent footage don’t show anything 😂
he more comments I see as popaganda or similar, the more I trust this man... Definitely. I will buy his book "The Prizoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia. Stupid bots didn't read a single page. Every word in his book is true...
I worked in China near the Chinese-Russian-North Korea border for some time and we always played this game of "which would be the worst prison to be sent to". Everyone was united on this: Russia
having read the accounts of the people that managed to escape North Korean death camps (calling them "prisons" is an insult to prisons, even as terrible as the Russian ones), I'm really not sure why they would say that.
@@igorbednarski8048nk has gotta be worse
In Russia, you reform jail.
Funny how after release he has enough money to move to US 🤔
Are you sure that this guy lives in the US?
He resides in Israel, according to a statement he gave to the Hague in 2022.
Not true, he lives in Germany and works as a driver ..
How does Biden's Prisons Work?
OoahHhHh bOt My AmErIcAN PriSoNs A rE fAr BeTtER yOu BoT YoU OrC YoU rUzZian vLad.
How are they Biden’s?
He’s elected head of state for eight years then he retires.
I smell a hysterical snowflake.
Every man in prison is innocent, that is known to everyone around the world. You have not experienced African prisons, my brother..
Now may you let us know how Guantanamo works?
Its interesting to watch videos about Russian prisons and how they run - nowadays the guards run them with iron fists and they often torture the prisoners - this is for the penal colonies out in the middle of nowhere that im mostly talking about. They often film the abuse on their cellphones, and there was one man who was in prison for a short stint who was really good with computers, who found the videos uploaded to them and sent them to himself so when he got home he had the proof. He then sent it to lawyers. There are a whole group of lawyers basically fighting for proper rights of people including prisoners.
Recently there was a man who was arrested for something very minor, sent to a penal colony for like a 2 year sentence, and the beating he sustained when he arrived was so severe he died from i believe a ruptured spleen. He didnt even actually get 'checked in' to the prison. Then they refused to tell his wife and family what happened to him, and didnt even tell her he had died for a few days.
Beatings, R's, its more common than youd think. Not to mention the share level of isolation they have on top of being put into stress positions, etc, when being moved around the facility for say time in 'the yard'.
A prison system is a micromodel of the society and an indicator of its development and civilization . To understand what a particular state is like, it is necessary to study the prison system. Particularly in prison all processes occurring in society take on grotesque and hypertrophied forms, and you, as if through a microscope, can see and make a research what the official authorities carefully hide. This the way to understand mentality and realize whom you are dealing with, how to treat them and what to expect from these people. When a country is ruled by a dictator, it is not easy to gain access to this microscope, because what happens in places of deprivation is carefully hidden from prying eyes and embellished in every possible way. The system is based on lies, hypocrisy and fraud. Torture, corruption, bullying and humiliation are, in general, a common story for Russian prisons. And not only for prisons. The way of life in the colony is determined not by the law, but by the degree of tyranny of the head of the colony, who is here called the owner ( master) and his entourage. And he really is the boss here. The closedness and lack of control of the system gives rise to permissiveness and impunity. Convicting an innocent person by pinning an unsolved crime on him just to improve reporting has become commonplace in Russia. In a country where there is no independent judiciary, unfortunately, you will no longer surprise anyone with unjust verdicts
His story is nothing compared to what kidnapped Ukrainian civilians and soldiers face in Russian prisons.
Damn...this guy was put through a total nightmare for nothing. I can imagine the anger, confusion, panic and fear of being held and eventually convicted for something you did not even do.
А где она есть эта справедливость ?
Eyebrows
I’m thankful Russia exists. It makes every where else seem not so bad.
Republicans need to be shown this. This is just a glimpse of the society they love so much. In America some of these things happen, but we hear about it and there are some consequences. In Russia you get a promotion for ruining someone's life.
I understand why this man came here.
Amazing story by George W. Bush's russian doppelgänger
Decades in jail for a crime that never happened; only in Russia (and Bakersfield)
Never happened? Did you hear something about Russia oligarchs like his boss?
Or in 20th century America, if you're an African American.
Is Russian prison today in 2024 better or worse then in 2004-2014 ?
Much better because prisoners amounts is declined rapidly and Russian government send more money for the system to build better condition with EU standards. Not ideal but much much better then 90s when Khodorkovsky stole money from russian people and send them to London
For example first time in recent history it is around 400k prisoners now in Russia (1,2 millions in 2000). US have more than 2,2 millions)
Watch the BBC documentary about the Russian prison..nothing has changed.
@@annalehman93941 lots of Russian prisoners are now sleeping in Ukrainian soil
Worse because the guards are even less afraid of any punishment and if you're male you get drafted.
Why don’t you visit Julian Assange and tell him your sob story!