Navalny Uses Humor and Wit to Connect from Russian Prison
• Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared via video link at a court hearing, where he cracked jokes about his prison conditions • Navalny quipped about whether there had been a "naked party" at his former prison to celebrate his departure • Despite his situation, Navalny showed his ability to find humor and connect with the outside world from prison • Navalny is serving over 30 years in prison on charges he says were fabricated to silence him after he survived a 2020 poisoning • Navalny joked the temperature at his Arctic penal colony had not dropped below -32°C yet, though it's one of Russia's harshest prisons