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FKU IK-3 (Russian: ФКУ ИК-3) [nb 1] of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, [3] also known as Polar Wolf (Russian: Полярный волк, romanized: Polyarnyy volk) or Yamskaya Troika (Ямская тройка), is a men's maximum security corrective colony in the town of Kharp in the ...
Dec 25, 2023 · Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov called IK-3, which was founded in 1961 on the site of a former Soviet gulag forced labor camp, “one of the most northern and remote” prison colonies in Russia.
Feb 16, 2024 · Alexey Navalny had been in jail since February 2021 and arrived at IK-3 in December. Alexei Navalny's penal colony is the strictest penal colony you can get. Only those accused of the very worst...
Feb 20, 2024 · Commonly known as "Polar Wolf", penal colony 3 (IK-3) was founded in the 1960s as part of what was once the Gulag system of forced Soviet labour camps. Located in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900km north-east of Moscow and 60km north of the Arctic Circle, Kharp itself was built by Gulag prisoners.
- Annika Burgess
Feb 16, 2024 · The politician was serving a 19-year sentence at Correctional Facility No. 3 (IK-3) in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (a prison also known as “Polar Wolf”) when he “felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness,” according to the FSIN.
Dec 25, 2023 · Mr. Navalny’s new penal colony, officially known as IK-3 Polar Wolf, is in the settlement of Kharp and is among the harshest and remotest prisons in Russia. Inmates endure long, dark, cold...
Dec 27, 2023 · Some 2,000 kilometers northeast of Moscow, IK-3 holds about 1,050 of Russia's most incorrigible prisoners. Human rights activists say the prison holds serial killers, rapists, pedophiles,...
