Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care – such are the conditions awaiting U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal last week against a nine-year drug sentence.
In an interview, Alyokhina had said that a penal colony is no ordinary prison and that it looks like a strange village, referring to the vast penal network established by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to isolate and crush inmates.