«Reporting. I arrived quickly and without any horrors, except for the «renovation» in the Yaroslavl pre-trial detention center. It looks as if Balabanov, Serebrennikov, and Sigarev got drunk and bet money on who could create and film the most picturesque image of a terrifying Russian prison. And an unknown creator of quest-horrors won because he wasn't shy at all… But the people we met there were the kindest, they welcomed us excellently, helped us, and then the Public Monitoring Commission came (special thanks).
I don't understand much about the colony yet, so I won't write much, but nothing terrible has happened to me so far, and it seems nothing should happen. People are just people, a place is just a place, the quarantine renovation is excellent, the rules are as crazy as in the entire Federal Penitentiary Service, surrounded by forest, sky above, in the evening from the smoking area you can see a beautiful moon and stunning stars. I always want to sleep or at least just lie down, but it's not allowed (only from 22:00 to 6:00), there are no books, and in 10 days there won't be time for books — sewing will begin. Cultural and mass work, it seems, will not start, or will start much later — well, that's fine, we'll figure it out as we go. Overall, I'm completely normal. No one is bothering me. And I'm not bothering anyone».
* Listed as a «terrorist and extremist».
Photo: Novaya Gazeta