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Navalny, 47, a former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a
decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin's elite and
voicing allegations of vast corruption, is currently in a jail
about 60 km (40 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
Kira Yarmysh, his spokesperson said on X late on Monday that it
was the 25th time Navalny had been placed in solitary
confinement and that he had spent 283 days in such conditions.
Sentenced to stay in prison until he is 74 on charges he says
were trumped up to keep him out of politics, Navalny said on
Monday that he was being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop
singer at 0500 every morning after being played the Russian
national anthem.
The Russian authorities cast Navalny as a fraudulent
Western-backed extremist out to up-end political stability and
sew chaos across the world's largest country, something he
denies.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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