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Imprisoned Russian draws prison life for messaging stickers
Original Publication Date: August 2, 2016 11:36PM
Publication Updated: April 27, 2025 10:27PM
MOSCOW – The imprisoned brother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has drawn a set of stickers depicting life in prison for a popular messaging app.
Oleg Navalny was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail in December 2014 for defrauding a cosmetics company in a verdict which was largely seen as retribution for the political ambitions of his brother, who got a suspended sentence in the same trial.
Moscow-based urban planner Pavel Akimov says he has approached Navalny after seeing his drawing in the media with the idea of using them on Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging app.
Some of the stickers, drawn in pencil, are bleak, illustrating guard brutality and suicide; others are ironic and black-humoured. Telegram accepts user-generated content and these stickers are available online.
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