Navajo wrote that he knew he was going to die in prison

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest opponent, has believed he would die in prison, according to a book expected to be published on October 22nd.

The American magazine The New Yorker published part of the book on Friday, which included the Navajo journal in prison, and other manuscripts of it.

I'll spend the rest of my life in prison and die here”, he wrote on March 22, 2022.

I won't have anyone to say goodbye to... all the anniversary will be celebrated without me. I'll never see my grandchildren and nieces”.

Navalny has been serving a 19-year prison sentence, on charges of <x0-secondremism”, in a Arctic prison.

His death on 16 February, at the age of 47, has been strongly condemned by the West, and most have blamed Putin.

Navajo was arrested in January 2021 after his return to Russia from Germany, where he was treated after a poisoning of nervous agents in a Russian city.

The only thing we need to fear from is to hand over our homeland to a gang of robbers, thieves and hypocrites”, he wrote on January 17, 2022.

His manuscripts feature loneliness in prison without losing doses of humor.

For example, on July 1, 2022, Navally described his usual day: waking up at 6:00, breakfast at 6:20, and work at 6:40.

On the job, you sit down for seven hours sewing in your car”, he wrote.

After work, keep sitting on a wooden bench for several hours, in front of Putin's portrait. This is called Disciplinary Activity”.

The book, called “Patrios”, will be published by the American publishing house Knopf, which plans to publish the Russian version as well.

It's impossible to read the Navajo journal in prison without being terrified by the tragedy of his suffering, from his death”, said New Yorker editor David Remnick.

In his last manuscript, January 17, 2024, Navally answers the question that many have asked him in prison for returning to Russia.

I don't want to give up my country, or betray it. If your beliefs mean something, you should prepare to keep them, and make sacrifices, if necessary,”, he said. / REL