Alexei Navalny transferred to Vladimir region

MOSCOW: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to the Vladimir region in Russia — some 200 kilometres (124 miles) east of Moscow — to serve a 2.5-year long term in a penal colony.

President Vladimir Putin's fiercest opponent was sentenced in early February to 2.5 years in a penal colony for breaching parole terms while in Germany recovering from a poisoning attack.

Reports said in a statement Sunday that the opposition figure was sent to a Federal Prison Service institution in the Vladimir region.

"At first, he will be in quarantine, then he will be transferred to his colony," a member of the commission, Alexei Melnikov, told the Inferfax news agency. (Agencies)

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