Surviving 7 Years Inside Russia's 'Unbearable' Prison Colonies | How Crime Works | Insider
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Күн бұрынVladimir Pereverzin was imprisoned for seven years in some of Russia's most notorious jails and penal colonies. He tells Business Insider about life in Russian jails and prisons, including details about police interrogations, solitary confinement, and forced labor. He describes the conditions in prison camps, the 'thieves code', and Russian prison tattoos.
Pereverzin worked in Cyprus for Yukos, an oil company owned by the billionaire businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In 2005, Khodorkovsky was sentenced on charges of fraud, which were widely considered to be politically motivated. Russian prosecutors accused other Yukos executives alongside Khodorkovsky, Pereverzin among them. He was incarcerated at several of the penal colonies that also held the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
His book about his experiences, "The Prisoner: Behind Bars in Putin's Russia," was published in English in March 2024.
Find his book here:
www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Behind-Bars-Putins-Russia/dp/1802472517
This video was edited by a Business Insider reporter who chose to remain anonymous to protect their safety.
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - The Moscow Arrest
02:16 - A Notorious Jail
04:29 - Prison Transfers
05:50 - The Penal Colony
08:06 - The Thieves' Code
10:08 - Prison Labor
12:11 - The Gulags
12:58 - The Guards
17:23 - Threats
20:16 - The Aftermath
23:55 - The Bigger Picture
26:10 - Credits
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@bilalabderrahmane7164 Ай бұрын
This guy's calm toughness is incredible.
@eugenetswong Ай бұрын
He makes it look easy.
@Joe-ym6bw 29 күн бұрын
@@eugenetswongRussians are very tough
@joelledbetter2926 Ай бұрын
No one will understand that feeling of getting out....there's nothing like it in the world litterally like lifting a 500lb weight off your back and then the fear and anxiety kicks in
@nalini7186 Ай бұрын
I understand it bud there’s a lot more like me too so I wouldn’t say no one
@user-sz8km9dy5v Ай бұрын
We’re was you in prison? Don’t tell me the uk 🇬🇧
@arthurias7693 Ай бұрын
@@user-sz8km9dy5v prison is prison, no matter where it is. lack of freedom is lack of freedom; being confined to a jail cell is just the same wherever you are in the world. some are worse but none are a walk in the park.
@shadowprince4482 Ай бұрын
Larry Lawton talked about how when he got out he couldn't even order a sandwich. It was sensory overload because of all the choices. Then the halfway house was a horrible joke and he opted to go to prison/jail and use it as a halfway house instead.
@JoeRogansForehead Ай бұрын
Hundreds of thousand of people , probably millions understand actually lol that’s kind of the problem
@user-gd1eh2ck6u Ай бұрын
we never realize how good we have it untill u hear about mother russia
@SofaKingShit 29 күн бұрын
Thank God the America prison system is a much better example for everyone else to follow.
@lucawolf1 26 күн бұрын
America ain’t no paradise either
@hornantuutti5157 25 күн бұрын
True but atleast they wont randomly send innocents to jail. Like russia. Having wrong opinion means you eighter die or be locked up. You cant really defend russia with whataboutism.
@Codewars-Solutions 24 күн бұрын
why should criminals have it good? Apart from that, the West is far more degenerate, where perversions are celebrated as the norm
@TzunSu 17 күн бұрын
@@lucawolf1 Whilst that's true, that's like saying "It's no picnic having a cold!" to someone who's dying of cancer. Neither is nice, but they're not comparable.
@VikingTeddy Ай бұрын
Nothing new unfortunately. Us old farts have seen and read the same interviews from Soviet prisoners, many many times. Going all the way back to the revolution. It's important to keep bringing it up, so the younger generations learn too.
@DanielOnFire101 Ай бұрын
Most of those were debunked btw. Solzhenitsyn’s wife later admitted it was mostly fabricated. The Soviet Union instituted the greatest increase in living standards and industrial power the world has ever seen.
@Unknown_Genius Ай бұрын
Bringing it up doesn't help either. At the end of the day they had been allowed to continue terrorize half of europe after WW2 despite the fact that they were the same as the third reich and would have given a lot to work together up to the point they arrived in berlin. And who can blame a system that never changes if it always worked out.
@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 Ай бұрын
"Learn".. Reading your ((newspapers)) is not learning.
@VikingTeddy Ай бұрын
Seems the russkibots are as effective and competent as their army 😅
@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 Ай бұрын
@@VikingTeddy Go worship your rabbis American
@cconnon1912 Ай бұрын
6 men share one shower head once a week for 15 minutes to wash themselves and wash clothes. Damn.
@humanOilslick Ай бұрын
Luck it’s cold there so they don’t have to really worry 😂
@hurmane.8593 28 күн бұрын
@@humanOilslick cold when? in the winter? of course it is. in the summer? it's hot. or do you think russia is engulfed in snow all year round?
@humanOilslick 28 күн бұрын
@@hurmane.8593 most year 😂
@hurmane.8593 27 күн бұрын
@@humanOilslick tell me you've never been/lived in russia without telling me
@burningMalarkey 18 күн бұрын
Shame on you guys for not linking his book. I would read this book. I’m glad he mentioned he wrote one.
@threethrushes Ай бұрын
Mr. Pereverzin was no mere mid-manager employee of Yukos. He was instrumental in the acquisition of Yukos by the bank Menatep, which Khodorkovsky was Chairman of. He personally acted for Menatep on 8 December 1995 in the controversial purchase of Yukos. I'm not saying he is guilty as charged, however it is somewhat disingenuous for him to make out that he was a mere pawn.
@TheRevolutionReport1917 Ай бұрын
Exactly. And to be honest, there was nothing honest about Russian business practices on that level in the 1990s
@coajdka Ай бұрын
Exactly lol this is propaganda
@alexandredevert4935 Ай бұрын
My experience of a similar country is that the mentality is : everybody is guilty of something to a degree, which is a useful, justice can never be wrong
@oleksandrdanyliuk7628 Ай бұрын
+15 rubles
@TheEndorus 29 күн бұрын
There is love in Russia with creation of documents, because even if facts are against documents, documents will survive and maybe someone will treat them as facts. So we will never know.
@lupine.spirit161 Ай бұрын
Meanwhile Anders Breivik: *sues norway for inhumane treatment and asks for a playstation*
@antoniousai1989 Ай бұрын
That speaks volumes on Norway as a country.
@DomnulSarb Ай бұрын
You're missing the point though
@lupine.spirit161 Ай бұрын
@@DomnulSarb i have no point
@Salted_Fysh Ай бұрын
a) He's being kept in solitary confinement for the maximum amount of years possible by Norwegian law. Solitary confinement has officially been recognized as a form of torture (his isn't for a variety of reasons). By Norwegian standards, his sentence is very harsh. b) Norway is a country that sets higher standards for itself than a russian penal colony. c) Norway has, on a worldwide scale, an extremely low recidivism rate (rate at which criminals end up back in prison after release). They also save tons of money and bureaucracy on not running a prison system that is designed to suck. Clearly their system is working.
@teekay9886 Ай бұрын
That's because the Norwegian jail system has a purpose of rehabilitating prisoners and either make them into functional members of society, or keep them locked in for a long period of time. It's what prison should be by a definition. Russian system however, is designed to keep the ruling class in tighter control, and the prisoner is not to be considered a person.... So, yeah.... It's damn near impossible to even consider humanity as an approach. I always find it tragicomical when the leaders of the countries, corrupted to the point of absolute debauchery, talk about democracy... Democracy can only be achieved by a truly moral human being. In a corrupted society, it's a paradox and a mockery by itself.
@LawtonDigital Ай бұрын
See also: "Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag" 70 years later, and so little has changed in the Russian prison system
@DomnulSarb Ай бұрын
Russia will never change. It's basically an enormous self-regulating and self-perpetuating dysgenics experiment.
@boris2997 Ай бұрын
Didn't they made a movie about it
@user-fj4mo9xz1c Ай бұрын
Omg, there is a whole elaborate prison culture. Not just tattoos, but giving party before you leave, burning prison clothes afterwards, etc.
@TymexComputing Ай бұрын
Well Pereverzin said many times he is innocent, but he could easily share if he knew Khodorkovsky, if Khodorkovsky was also innocent and why does he think so - what was he doing in that company and how did people work there - he is now in free country so he should say how does the communism arise - its now in france, canada and biden's mind.
@honved1 Ай бұрын
@@boris2997Yes, I think it was a TV movie from the early 80’s
@joshs3916 Ай бұрын
I’m glad this man is able to move on and still have an upbeat personality. It’s such a crime this keeps happening and sadly, I don’t see this ever stopping anytime soon.
@OGGOAT23 Ай бұрын
Russian prisons no joke
@harvey2609 25 күн бұрын
Reminds me of that scene in "The Wire". "This is not prison. This is nothing" -- Sergei
@amaannanji3113 12 күн бұрын
I don’t need you. I don’t need f***ing canteen
@barbiethingz Ай бұрын
I feel so sorry for this man...terrible to be serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Unfortunetly in Russia not much has changed since the USSR days, maybe except fashion and technology...
@BridgesDontFly Ай бұрын
Didn't commit ehh?
@pepevonkek7803 Ай бұрын
200 billion stolen from Russia and laundered via european danske banks. Nothing to see here... Everyone is innocent and who knew too much are murdered by Western countries.
@Leith_Crowther Ай бұрын
The communism went away, and the authoritarianism didn’t.
@brody3166 Ай бұрын
@@BridgesDontFly The prosecution literally didn't even present any evidence against him except a labor book saying he worked for Yukos previously. No records of his sales, no proof that any embezzlement occurred. Nothing. He had never met the CEO of the company or even the other manager they accused of being his co-conspirator. The crime itself was literally impossible for him to have done because he didn't ever have access to 13 billion dollars worth of sales of crude oil in the time he worked there. The case was a sham, it certainly wouldn't meet the standards for proof in the U.S. How would you feel if my only evidence for accusing YOU of a crime was that you worked at the same company as a murderer?
@BridgesDontFly Ай бұрын
@@brody3166 This happens often in the US.
@davehughes53 Ай бұрын
Interesting and simple. They needed a fall guy. To officially acquire the oil.
@TheGeenat Ай бұрын
It’s never that simple
@gilmour6754 Ай бұрын
Given how criminal Yukos was, as well as any major Russian company in the privatization era, I doubt this guy was 100% innocent. Yukos was caught commiting major fraud to avoid taxes. I bet he's right that he was basically a politically motivated scapegoat for Oligarchs, but it's impossible to overstate how crooked these companies are and without knowing exactly what he did there it's not hard to believe a mere manager could be involved in the crime and end up offered up as the mastermind to save the real top dog. Not saying this dude is lying 100%, but this doesn't pass the sniff test when you read up on the post-privatization era of Russia and how corrupt the new private companies were.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
not true, this dude has nothing to do with oligarchs and workin now as a track driver in Germany...
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
How criminal Yukos was? Could you explain? Rosneft under management Putin's friends paid less taxes as Yukos paid, when oil prices were at least twice lower! You know why?
@AeSyrNation 22 күн бұрын
This is just one of the semi-high-profile political revenge cases. I once got jailed overnight for walking near a half-empty beer bottle. The cops have arrest quotas, and the end of the month was coming up, so they just grabbed me and said, "That beer must be yours." They held me overnight in the most rank cell I've ever seen. There literally was a piece of dry faeces on the floor, in a cell 4x4 feet. I tried to stand and not touch anything for as long as I could, but eventually, tiredness got the better of me, so I had to sit down on the concrete bench. I left there with scabies. In the morning, they told me to sign for a fine for public intoxication, and I'd be able to walk out. Otherwise, I'd be held in that cell for 15 days until a court date.
@klettersteig599 19 күн бұрын
That’s crazy and sorry you had that happen to you. It’s hard to imagine people so callous that they have no problem arresting an innocent stranger. Why is it allowed that you have to wait for 10 days to get arraigned? Was this in the US? What state?
@AeSyrNation 19 күн бұрын
@@klettersteig599 it was in Russia🤷♂️ they can legally hold you for up to 15 days in jail before seeing a judge
@user-ef1jz3jg7d Ай бұрын
yes,this one is called documentary .bravo .
@meysamha Ай бұрын
PLEASE Make an episode of rehabilitation camps
@paddington1670 Ай бұрын
excellent video
@sethbucy 11 күн бұрын
The reel noises between each cut really take away from the intensity of the interview.
@amehwican Ай бұрын
For a second there I thought the thumbnail said “schizo guard”
@sandydancer187 Ай бұрын
Cheeky clickbait. They knew what they were doing lol.
@OfficialSamuelC Ай бұрын
Just ordered his book. What a story!
@Golgi-Gyges Ай бұрын
My name is Vladimir, but everyone calls me Georgio
@leanbanclog Ай бұрын
This guy was more than just a middle manager, a lot more
@flippy66 23 күн бұрын
The Russian bots and UIs love these videos 🤣
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 23 күн бұрын
it makes them crazy!
@tyrese21kendrick49 Ай бұрын
I love this Channel, pls make a Video about a Chinese Jail
@oregonsdank Ай бұрын
No one ever gets out or they would.
@tyrese21kendrick49 Ай бұрын
@@oregonsdank thats scary af i think its look like a SquidGame 💀
@Fckterrorism-vr2kq Ай бұрын
I need more videos on western jails to balance out that propaganda.
@frozencrow8735 6 күн бұрын
@@tyrese21kendrick49I mean have you ever heard about Chinese prison? Nobody talking about them.
@manmeetworld 17 күн бұрын
Great narration
@jackiezhang5585 Ай бұрын
他英文真好，基本都能听清楚，口音并不影响理解
@mcgraw8098 Ай бұрын
It's certainly better than yours😅
@mcgraw8098 Ай бұрын
@@axeavier that went right over your head didn't it.
@alexr167 Ай бұрын
你好同志
@kamikazekhan2832 Ай бұрын
😭😭😭 nah convicted for stealing ALL the oil is crazy
@ShermanT.Potter Ай бұрын
I wonder why the colonies were so nervous about the complaints, couldn't they censor the mail?
@CtOlaf Ай бұрын
Prisoners give them to their lawyers, or directly to the court.
@ShermanT.Potter Ай бұрын
@@CtOlaf I'm surprised they're allowed to do that. At least in that aspect, it seems like a fair justice system.
@Asger21 Ай бұрын
@@ShermanT.PotterFair???😂😂😂 So Navalny was treated kind of fairly?
@ShermanT.Potter Ай бұрын
@@Asger21 "At least in that aspect", meaning specifically regarding complaints. Proper grammar is supposed to lessen contextual issues such as this, but the reader has to pick up on them. :)
@doorzhik Ай бұрын
Well, the issue is that you have competitors: Prosecutor's Office, may be the Investigative Committee and so on. Ideally they would be glad to compromise another law enforcement agency in the race of power. But practically, especially in the poor regions, local law enforcement agencies can be intertwined by the corruption, so these complaints would not be a big problem. But there's another issue: it's still a bureaucracy. And you have to deal with this paper, and even if you could just throw it off, it still annoys you
@Leith_Crowther Ай бұрын
Overpaid Russian adds flooding the comments.
@balkanhistrian2883 Ай бұрын
Yes, and payment is good
@westnilesnipes Ай бұрын
The troll farms are out in full force 😂
@annalehman93941 Ай бұрын
But all of your comments here is about Russia. Who's the bot?
@joshs3916 Ай бұрын
Scary stuff
@hassanbeydoun2460 Ай бұрын
2:00 Handsome guy😌 Seems like a cool guy from the interview
@JahStyles Ай бұрын
seems very vanilla. as he said at the end this story is nothing compared to some of the tortures and rapes used in russian colonies on systematic basis.
@steveeuphrates-river7342 29 күн бұрын
Very interesting story!
@Somebody_else_u_know Ай бұрын
Random Cat: Yep. Random Spider: The way it goes around. Non-Random Skidrow Tramp: Let's have some bitter tea...
@nna1u39 Ай бұрын
watched it through the whole way, what a wonderful story honestly
@victormusembi1965 Ай бұрын
Torturing prisoners is not good. Especially when a prisoner who is innocent.
@Fckterrorism-vr2kq Ай бұрын
*Laughs in american prison*
@JohnDoe-lx5rm Ай бұрын
Its normal in russia, always has been
@zivkovicable Ай бұрын
@@JohnDoe-lx5rm While not quite on the same level, the USA has some terrible prisons too by first world standards..
@JohnDoe-lx5rm Ай бұрын
@@zivkovicable it does. Somewhere deep in south too, of course. But overthere is everywhere like that. And whether you are guilty or not if you are put in prison they will literally beat the confession out of you, that us if some powerful people or just people with food connections want you gona for whatever reason, that is a common practice there. Just the same way rhis guy was out there because someone else wanned rhst business or wanned to steal that money and they jist made him a scapegoat. Everything is for sale and i mean Everything. You have 0 rights and you are not human there, you are just meat. In most of the places its like exactly like this. I mean you know what they did to the guy who was trying to replace putin right? Put in prison and ended up killing him, poisoning. russia is not a good place to be in prison or live there. I hope the send more of my tax money to help Ukraine to withstand their invasion and their regime. Russia basically is like north korea but with little more freedom.
@annalehman93941 Ай бұрын
Innocent? 😂 He was working on the one of the worst and bloodiest oligarch - Khodorkovsky
@cousinivoryciv1309 24 күн бұрын
the VHS timer/PLAY effect is kinda silly, at least change the time when u edit the cuts ...
@austinhowell3463 Ай бұрын
Undisputed movies gave me all the info I need to know about russian prisons
@Nick_B_Bad Ай бұрын
😂 I never seen past the first one with Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames.
@austinhowell3463 Ай бұрын
@@Nick_B_Bad te second one is pretty solid as well
@am3m3r Ай бұрын
Wasn’t there a movie based on the downfall of yukos oil company and this guy?
@TheHumbleThinker Ай бұрын
Eipstein would have been glad to hear your story.
@trippplecup1563 Ай бұрын
Getting out of county jail after 10 months in America is still the best feeling in the world that I've felt.
@JohnDoe-bt9qp 27 күн бұрын
Mogs me, I didn't leave my house once in 2024.
@Crown42 Ай бұрын
This is why i respect the Voryz V Zakone. They started their organization because of the hardships that they endured in prison.
@austind9675 15 күн бұрын
I enjoy these programs but kind of wish the format was a bit different…the constant switching to the VHS style chapter breaks is distracting (for future reference)
@RBTVN 28 күн бұрын
Would take everything this guy says with a very large pinch of salt.
@bartsted8369 Ай бұрын
he should be lucky he wasn't put into jail later ..as Putin still had a conscience then and was not as powerful as he is now. imagine now what they have to endure ...frontline or gulag which is better?
@Gettenhart Ай бұрын
The balls on this man to get jumped on purpose by 5 people just to get transfered. Hope he is having a good life now
@Runnifier 26 күн бұрын
This reminds me so much of what it was like to be a student at Pilgrim’s Rest Boarding School in Kentucky. Children can be tortured but can’t get lawyers.
@Joe-ym6bw 29 күн бұрын
I feel bad for this man Russian prisons are tough he seems like a decent guy
@harvey2609 25 күн бұрын
Remember that scene in "The Wire"? "This is not prison. This is nothing." --- Sergie
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 25 күн бұрын
Hahaha! How long could you stay in "not a prizon"? one or three minutes?
@harvey2609 25 күн бұрын
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c It's a line from a TV show. A Russian guy is saying this about American prison. Never mind 🤫
@PumpedAntics 20 күн бұрын
@@user-jq9nv8ys1creading comprehension non existent
@minenotyours212 Ай бұрын
If it makes you feel better there are people in America doing 10-25 years for having a little bit of weed
@John-mf6ky Ай бұрын
You think they just let people go for weed possession in Russia?;😂
@minenotyours212 Ай бұрын
@@John-mf6ky ya if you’re an oligarch
@revenone1077 Ай бұрын
@@John-mf6ky Usually its a fine, it depends how much you have.
@Fckterrorism-vr2kq Ай бұрын
@@revenone1077 NoOoOo VlAdImIr Its MucH wOrSE ThaN wHaT yOu sAyInG bOt mY MuRiCa Is tHe bEsT RuzZiA bAd WAaAaAa (RAaAaAH)
@Salted_Fysh Ай бұрын
If it makes you feel better, the US prison system is increasingly privatized and treated as a for-profit organization using slave labour. 🦆👍🦆
@katelynnsgiraffe6456 Ай бұрын
and here comes all the americans to tell how wonderful the US prison system is and its the best in the world.
@Mattnsarah 10 минут бұрын
Very interesting story
@invisibledave Ай бұрын
Luckily for him, he never got near any upper story windows.
@epampoefmkfkefpeao4291 Ай бұрын
of course you found a person that was sentenced for crime they “didn’t commit”
@jona6581 Ай бұрын
great project. except this interview is the most uninteresting and uninformative as it can be. most of the time spent on repeating of being wrongly convicted for political reasons, and so on. guess, being a guilty person still afraid of being caught saying true reasons for incarceration.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
He discribe all details in his book, where every single word is true...
@jona6581 Ай бұрын
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c innocence project is waiting for his application 😅
@jackwood8307 20 күн бұрын
❤
@brody3166 Ай бұрын
And some of my friends wonder why I hate Russia and think it's a terrible place. No matter what problems I might have in the U.S it's vastly better than what happens over there. I feel so bad for Vladimir and his story hurts to listen to.
@ronblack7870 Ай бұрын
and now it's right back to what he describes if not worse. his statement that prisoners are not humans is the same as the rusian military and their soldiers.
@Patrick-el8zs Ай бұрын
I have the same issue with some people not understanding my dislike of Russia .
@davsickler3978 Ай бұрын
Ignorance is bliss. American jails are even worse.
@walkw5271 Ай бұрын
@@davsickler3978Rarely, US prisons nowadays you can have cellphones and commodities. Now if you’re poor in prison in the US that’s rough.
@bruxodomorro Ай бұрын
Pretty ignorant to hate a country you have never stepped a foot in. By this logic i would have to hate the US after watching Goodfellas and playing GTA.
@dfui. Ай бұрын
How does Biden's Prisons Work?
@Fckterrorism-vr2kq Ай бұрын
OoahHhHh bOt My AmErIcAN PriSoNs A rE fAr BeTtER yOu BoT YoU OrC YoU rUzZian vLad.
@TesterAnimal1 Ай бұрын
How are they Biden’s? He’s elected head of state for eight years then he retires. I smell a hysterical snowflake.
@karbonaterol7625 25 күн бұрын
0:24 like the other guy who was said truth against america? assange
@misanthropicphilanthropy Ай бұрын
He's telling ALL OF US, to BE THANKFUL FOR ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE NOW. life, health, food, warm shelter, comfort, love, Etc... ❤ thanks ❤
@gus2600 Ай бұрын
Makes you wonder why someone would commit crimes in Russia seeing that the prisons are so bad .
@VitaliiVoronov Ай бұрын
you dont have to commit anything. Being in the wrong place , in the wrong time is enough to destroy you
@heyysimone 20 күн бұрын
The same thing could be said anywhere. People know breaking the law has the consequence of prison - but it doesnt stop them. In places where the death penalty is a possibility or a mandated sentence for certain crimes, people still commit those crimes.
@derimmerlugt3032 5 күн бұрын
Most crimes are either committed in the heat of the moment or by people who assume they won't get caught.
@ssherrierable 28 күн бұрын
He just said “this is how crime works “ I thought you never committed any crime? 😂😂😂
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 27 күн бұрын
Is it not obvious, that in this case the crime was commited by the state authorities ?
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 27 күн бұрын
Hahaha! What a clever comment!
@WashingtonStateStyleDoorDash 25 күн бұрын
You're not the brightest bulb in the drawer are you?
@suprotyv7534 23 күн бұрын
His story is nothing compared to what kidnapped Ukrainian civilians and soldiers face in Russian prisons.
@mokster5 Ай бұрын
I can't believe I hadn't heard about Navalny's death until now. I knew he'd come close several times but I never heard he actually died this year. How sad.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
Navalny was murdered by prisoners...
@TheNethIafin Ай бұрын
have you seen his ads from like 15 years ago?
@theworldofwoo8320 Ай бұрын
Navalny the MI6 agent? That guy?
@shaiaheyes2c41 Ай бұрын
How could you not have heard of Alexei Navalny's death until now?
@suprotyv7534 23 күн бұрын
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c he was murdered by Putin
@samshepperrd Ай бұрын
I'm always impressed when i hear someone who lives outside the English speaking world gain a perfectly working mastery of my country's language. I could never do that. Retaining their native langua accent makesxit all the more enjoyable to hear.
@fieryweasel Ай бұрын
Well, it was nice knowing this guy.
@Fckterrorism-vr2kq Ай бұрын
If he's in an american channel he's probably very safe.
@BruceLee-rc2dr 26 күн бұрын
Yukos was shady as any other company in Russia at that time. If you where a business man in those times, it meant you had direct ties to organized crime.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 25 күн бұрын
Not true! The more shady oil company in Russia were Rosneft and Surgutnentegaz. Yukos was the first company to be published the ownershiship structure and audit by PWC.
@AeSyrNation 22 күн бұрын
Also, Khodorkovsky at least built kindergartens, sport fields, and roads. That was one of the reasons he was targeted: he was becoming quite popular among the populace, and as one of the most wealthy people in the country, could potentially fund his own successful political campaign.
@bydloshkolnik 11 күн бұрын
@@AeSyrNation He killed a city mayor which tried to force him to pay the workers who were starving without any payment for 6 months at that time. the mayor also went on the hunger strike with the workers. >Petukhov went on a hunger strike with demands: to initiate a criminal case in connection with the failure of Yukos to pay taxes in large amounts in 1996-1998, to remove the chief of the tax inspectorate of Nefteyugansk and the head of the tax inspection of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, to pay back the accumulated arrears in the amount of 1.2 trillion non-denominated rubles, stop interfering in the activities of local authorities of Nefteyugansk by Yukos >A few days after the end of the hunger strike, on the morning of June 26, 1998, on his way to work, Petukhov was shot near the city administration building. His guard was also wounded in the shooting. The murder occurred on the birthday of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which many observers saw as a gift for the Russian businessman's birthday
@vanderlinde4you Ай бұрын
I assume he's living far away from russia as we speak.
@mikeljackson9192 3 күн бұрын
Deutschland
@arisgiannis2527 Ай бұрын
All background video footage seems at least 20 years old If you don’t have resent footage don’t show anything 😂
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
he more comments I see as popaganda or similar, the more I trust this man... Definitely. I will buy his book "The Prizoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia. Stupid bots didn't read a single page. Every word in his book is true...
@nickacelvn Ай бұрын
sounds a lot like most jails to me truth be known. The comment about America being a free society comparatively. Yes, much to the dismay of the owners.
@Faceplay2 Ай бұрын
I completely disagree with you. I used to be a correctional officer. None of that stuff would be legal federally, or in the state that I worked at you would be arrested and fired right away for beating up inmates for no reason also in the United States, you have a trial Before you’re sent to prison. All the things he’s talking about or not legally allowed in the United States.
@shaiaheyes2c41 Ай бұрын
Russian jails are certainly not like most jails, not in the civilized world anyway, but then again, we all know Russians aren't civilized.
@flintb6559 Ай бұрын
This info is aged now, Russia changed its penal system a lot in the last 5-10 years. The thieve's code etc, prisons ran by thieves, this is mostly a thing of the past, the authorities are in charge in almost every prison nowadays.
@dislike7973 Ай бұрын
If it wasnt for Russias tough prison system we would not had the chance to hear this amazing story
@razumskiy Ай бұрын
Funny how after release he has enough money to move to US 🤔
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
Are you sure that this guy lives in the US?
@threethrushes Ай бұрын
He resides in Israel, according to a statement he gave to the Hague in 2022.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
Not true, he lives in Germany and works as a driver ..
@ZachAbram-ey8pm Ай бұрын
i am starting to get used to people wanting to help me lol for some reason im just still upset over my younger years. for whatever reason the help i was getting just wasn't helping at all
@MrJakobMovies Ай бұрын
38 seconds in and it seems way more horrible than american prisons
@risenacademy189 Ай бұрын
Guantanamo Bay, do a video on that as well that's actually how crime works
@dr.woozie7500 Ай бұрын
This guy's prison experience seems like daycare compared to the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in the Arctic that Navalny was tortured and killed in.
@freedomofspeech2867 24 күн бұрын
I mean for actual hardcore criminals this is fair treatment but they should just like, stop jailing innocent people.
@skullandbones1832 Ай бұрын
👍
@malbig2344 Ай бұрын
Eyebrows
@JohnC-pt1iw 3 күн бұрын
Life is a prison even in North America
@paulfrank9047 28 күн бұрын
Sorry, I don't feel bad for him at all, considering he along with his boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky engaged in severe corruption and the theft and sale of Russia's state assets for pennies on the dollar, during country's the transition from communism to capitalism. During that time, the life expectancy of Russian men dropped to 57 and many families could barely afford to eat. The state currency became so worthless teachers would get paid in bottles of vodka instead of money. Khodorkovsky became the richest man in Russia and an oligarch by using mafia type tactics to pillage the state's economy for the benefit of himself and cronies like Pereverzin. The oligarchs are what allowed Yeltsin to stay in power, despite him being an unpopular corrupt alcoholic who destroyed Russia's economy; the oligarchs bankrolled his reelection. Then Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor on condition he would not go after Yeltsin or his family. Putin allowed all the Yeltsin era oligarchs to keep their stolen assets as long as they pledged fealty to him. Khodorkovsky refused since he thought as Russia's richest man, he could dictate terms to Putin. However, Putin charged him for corruption (which he was most certainly guilty of) along with Pereverzin and the rest of the cronies at Yukos. These men inadvertently got Putin to succeed to the presidency, thinking they could control him like they did with Yeltsin. How poetic their corrupt and evil scheme backfired on them and landed them in prison. Pereverzin is no persecuted dissident and martyr for human rights. Putting lipstick on a pig won't make it attractive.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 28 күн бұрын
If you read his book "The Prisoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia" you would write such a strange comment. Pereverzin has been sent to prizon under completely false charges. Khodorkovsky has never ever been charged for corruption and you did not evern mention formal charges in Khodorkovsky case.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 27 күн бұрын
I feel sorry for you, that you managed to write such a long comment with has nothing to do with this guy... Maybe it wouid worth to read his book ?
@JudeObianumba-vg4hj 28 күн бұрын
😢😢😢😢😢
@djtomoy Ай бұрын
I expect they work like normal prisons, bad guys go in…good guys come out
@heyysimone 20 күн бұрын
Its interesting to watch videos about Russian prisons and how they run - nowadays the guards run them with iron fists and they often torture the prisoners - this is for the penal colonies out in the middle of nowhere that im mostly talking about. They often film the abuse on their cellphones, and there was one man who was in prison for a short stint who was really good with computers, who found the videos uploaded to them and sent them to himself so when he got home he had the proof. He then sent it to lawyers. There are a whole group of lawyers basically fighting for proper rights of people including prisoners. Recently there was a man who was arrested for something very minor, sent to a penal colony for like a 2 year sentence, and the beating he sustained when he arrived was so severe he died from i believe a ruptured spleen. He didnt even actually get 'checked in' to the prison. Then they refused to tell his wife and family what happened to him, and didnt even tell her he had died for a few days. Beatings, R's, its more common than youd think. Not to mention the share level of isolation they have on top of being put into stress positions, etc, when being moved around the facility for say time in 'the yard'.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c 20 күн бұрын
A prison system is a micromodel of the society and an indicator of its development and civilization . To understand what a particular state is like, it is necessary to study the prison system. Particularly in prison all processes occurring in society take on grotesque and hypertrophied forms, and you, as if through a microscope, can see and make a research what the official authorities carefully hide. This the way to understand mentality and realize whom you are dealing with, how to treat them and what to expect from these people. When a country is ruled by a dictator, it is not easy to gain access to this microscope, because what happens in places of deprivation is carefully hidden from prying eyes and embellished in every possible way. The system is based on lies, hypocrisy and fraud. Torture, corruption, bullying and humiliation are, in general, a common story for Russian prisons. And not only for prisons. The way of life in the colony is determined not by the law, but by the degree of tyranny of the head of the colony, who is here called the owner ( master) and his entourage. And he really is the boss here. The closedness and lack of control of the system gives rise to permissiveness and impunity. Convicting an innocent person by pinning an unsolved crime on him just to improve reporting has become commonplace in Russia. In a country where there is no independent judiciary, unfortunately, you will no longer surprise anyone with unjust verdicts
@user-mj1vk2nw9z Ай бұрын
Now may you let us know how Guantanamo works?
@scy1038 26 күн бұрын
Everyone hated them until 2020, for some weird reason.
@hughmcdonnell849 Ай бұрын
Why don’t you visit Julian Assange and tell him your sob story!
@ivandemko3360 Ай бұрын
This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion 😂
@Fckterrorism-vr2kq Ай бұрын
"This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion " Ah yes... "Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
@2258kid Ай бұрын
In Russia, you reform jail.
@66rowrow Ай бұрын
Excellent work 👏 Next do Guantanamo bay 👍
@iCover480 Ай бұрын
The oil company broke the cardinal sin of not cutting Putin in on the deals.
@None-ss1zi Ай бұрын
Every prisoner ever: I'm innocent, bro.
@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын
Where did you heard such a boolsheet? Have you been in prison?
@gsustime Ай бұрын
Amazing story by George W. Bush's russian doppelgänger
@boringstuff1542 Ай бұрын
Republicans need to be shown this. This is just a glimpse of the society they love so much. In America some of these things happen, but we hear about it and there are some consequences. In Russia you get a promotion for ruining someone's life.
@YouTube.R. Ай бұрын
You know the FSB is watching this video. If you are FSB like this comment.
@markorsrpska7230 Ай бұрын
Every man in prison is innocent, that is known to everyone around the world. You have not experienced African prisons, my brother..
@bsparxxx3718 Ай бұрын
Come to nigeria its 10x worst then this
@alexr167 Ай бұрын
I worked in China near the Chinese-Russian-North Korea border for some time and we always played this game of "which would be the worst prison to be sent to". Everyone was united on this: Russia
@igorbednarski8048 22 күн бұрын
having read the accounts of the people that managed to escape North Korean death camps (calling them "prisons" is an insult to prisons, even as terrible as the Russian ones), I'm really not sure why they would say that.
@PumpedAntics 20 күн бұрын
@@igorbednarski8048nk has gotta be worse
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