In his memoir “Patriot,” the Russian opposition leader tracks the boredom, isolation, exhaustion, suffering, and absurdity of prison life.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny expressed commitment to his cause in a memoir released eight months after his death.

T hree and a half years before Alexei Navalny was murdered by Vladimir Putin, he was very nearly murdered by him, and he described the experience of sliding into oblivion. “It’s all lies, what they say,

Towards the end of his autobiography, Alexei Navalny admits he is struggling to finish it for reasons beyond his control. Prison officials are constantly saddling him with tasks that leave him scarce time to write.