Jailed Kremlin Foe Navalny Fires Back With ‘Putin Palace’ Video
- Russia vows to reject Western calls for Navalny’s release
- Opposition leader is being held in notorious Moscow prison
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Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny released a new expose showing what he asserts is a $1.35 billion palace on the Black Sea built for President Vladimir Putin in a show of defiance as the Kremlin vowed to ignore calls for his release.
The 44-year-old activist was jailed Sunday night on his return from Germany, where he had been recovering from a nerve-agent poisoning he and western governments blame on the Kremlin. As their leader sat in a quarantine cell in a Moscow jail, Navalny’s allies sought to keep up the pressure, putting out the YouTube video and appealing to Western governments to sanction key allies of the Russian president.