Surviving 7 Years Inside Russia's 'Unbearable' Prison Colonies | How Crime Works

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Vladimir 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 2 ай бұрын

This guy's calm toughness is incredible.

@eugenetswong 2 ай бұрын

He makes it look easy.

@Joe-ym6bw Ай бұрын

@@eugenetswongRussians are very tough

@famousaddonis 8 күн бұрын

this is a stupid pandering kind of comment i'm sure you don't mean to make russian's give sense to but it is very anti productive because being a victim of the government is f'n senseless already. pointless to make someone feel as if they were strong for letting this be a truth for us all to fix. he was forced and not because he was tough.

@joelledbetter2926 2 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 2 ай бұрын

I understand it bud there’s a lot more like me too so I wouldn’t say no one

@user-sz8km9dy5v 2 ай бұрын

We’re was you in prison? Don’t tell me the uk 🇬🇧

@arthurias7693 2 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 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Hundreds of thousand of people , probably millions understand actually lol that’s kind of the problem

@user-gd1eh2ck6u 2 ай бұрын

we never realize how good we have it untill u hear about mother russia

@SofaKingShit Ай бұрын

Thank God the America prison system is a much better example for everyone else to follow.

@lucawolf1 Ай бұрын

America ain’t no paradise either

@hornantuutti5157 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

why should criminals have it good? Apart from that, the West is far more degenerate, where perversions are celebrated as the norm

@TzunSu Ай 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.

@cconnon1912 2 ай бұрын

6 men share one shower head once a week for 15 minutes to wash themselves and wash clothes. Damn.

@humanOilslick 2 ай бұрын

Luck it’s cold there so they don’t have to really worry 😂

@hurmane.8593 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

@@hurmane.8593 most year 😂

@hurmane.8593 Ай бұрын

@@humanOilslick tell me you've never been/lived in russia without telling me

@julianscaeva4334 14 күн бұрын

@@humanOilslickignorant

@VikingTeddy 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 ай бұрын

"Learn".. Reading your ((newspapers)) is not learning.

@VikingTeddy 2 ай бұрын

Seems the russkibots are as effective and competent as their army 😅

@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 2 ай бұрын

@@VikingTeddy Go worship your rabbis American

@AeSyrNation Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

@@klettersteig599 it was in Russia🤷‍♂️ they can legally hold you for up to 15 days in jail before seeing a judge

@mikitz 11 күн бұрын

In a true kleptocracy, thieves run the show while you go to jail for not stealing anything.

@RogueBoyScout 9 күн бұрын

Did you understand Cyrillic to know what it was you are signing? So many stories of Westerners in other countries asked to sign benign "confessions" or even just "legal paperwork", only to find out they literally signed their confession to crimes they never even did.

@AeSyrNation 9 күн бұрын

@@RogueBoyScout I'm from there

@lupine.spirit161 2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Anders Breivik: *sues norway for inhumane treatment and asks for a playstation*

@antoniousai1989 2 ай бұрын

That speaks volumes on Norway as a country.

@DomnulSarb 2 ай бұрын

You're missing the point though

@lupine.spirit161 2 ай бұрын

@@DomnulSarb i have no point

@Salted_Fysh 2 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 2 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.

@threethrushes 2 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 Ай 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.

@joshs3916 2 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.

@LawtonDigital 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Russia will never change. It's basically an enormous self-regulating and self-perpetuating dysgenics experiment.

@boris2997 2 ай бұрын

Didn't they made a movie about it

@user-fj4mo9xz1c 2 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 2 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 2 ай бұрын

@@boris2997Yes, I think it was a TV movie from the early 80’s

@OGGOAT23 2 ай бұрын

Russian prisons no joke

@harvey2609 Ай бұрын

Reminds me of that scene in "The Wire". "This is not prison. This is nothing" -- Sergei

@amaannanji3113 Ай бұрын

I don’t need you. I don’t need f***ing canteen

@meysamha 2 ай бұрын

PLEASE Make an episode of rehabilitation camps

@davehughes53 2 ай бұрын

Interesting and simple. They needed a fall guy. To officially acquire the oil.

@TheGeenat Ай бұрын

It’s never that simple

@user-ef1jz3jg7d 2 ай бұрын

yes,this one is called documentary .bravo .

@linzzzanity 3 күн бұрын

Imagine being a scapegoat for an oligarch. Meanwhile for 7 years they were on their $100 million yacht and 20 hot playthings.

@barbiethingz 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Didn't commit ehh?

@pepevonkek7803 2 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 2 ай бұрын

The communism went away, and the authoritarianism didn’t.

@brody3166 2 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 2 ай бұрын

@@brody3166 This happens often in the US.

@onthefive5615 9 күн бұрын

I'm happy you made it out!

@burningMalarkey Ай бұрын

Shame on you guys for not linking his book. I would read this book. I’m glad he mentioned he wrote one.

@galactictomato1434 12 күн бұрын

His book is linked in the video description...

@burningMalarkey 12 күн бұрын

@@galactictomato1434now it is.

@seidenstickerj 7 күн бұрын

It's both linked and mentioned in the video, right at the end, they even show the cover and he recommends it to all viewers.

@burningMalarkey 7 күн бұрын

@@seidenstickerj I know it’s mentioned. That’s why I’m asking for a link. I finally got one.

@paddington1670 Ай бұрын

excellent video

@manmeetworld Ай бұрын

Great narration

@Czechbound 7 күн бұрын

I travelled across Russia on my own during the winter. I was in Vladimir. I was in the bus station. I never met more hospitable people than ordinary Russians, who would do everything they could to help you on your travels. Love Russian people. Remember that the regime and the jailers are a criminal gang, stealing from ordinary Russians and exploiting them. Imagine the terror of being an innocent person suddnely caught up into that system. And to _know_ that your jailors ( that is, these sociopaths and psychopaths that are recruited as jailors ) also know that you are innocent, but will mistreat you anyway because they don't have the brain circuitry for empathy. And that at any moment, even if you haven't done anything wrong, if they are having a bad day they might take it out on you, and there is nothing you can do about it.

@OfficialSamuelC 2 ай бұрын

Just ordered his book. What a story!

@nna1u39 Ай бұрын

watched it through the whole way, what a wonderful story honestly

@tyrese21kendrick49 2 ай бұрын

I love this Channel, pls make a Video about a Chinese Jail

@oregonsdank 2 ай бұрын

No one ever gets out or they would.

@tyrese21kendrick49 2 ай бұрын

@@oregonsdank thats scary af i think its look like a SquidGame 💀

@Fckterrorism-vr2kq 2 ай бұрын

I need more videos on western jails to balance out that propaganda.

@frozencrow8735 27 күн бұрын

@@tyrese21kendrick49I mean have you ever heard about Chinese prison? Nobody talking about them.

@jackiezhang5585 2 ай бұрын

他英文真好，基本都能听清楚，口音并不影响理解

@mcgraw8098 2 ай бұрын

It's certainly better than yours😅

@mcgraw8098 2 ай бұрын

@@axeavier that went right over your head didn't it.

@alexr167 2 ай бұрын

你好同志

@jackiezhang5585 3 күн бұрын

阴阳怪气挺没意思的，一个颗没有赞美只有挑剔的心很可悲

@austind9675 Ай 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)

@Runnifier Ай 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.

@leanbanclog Ай бұрын

This guy was more than just a middle manager, a lot more

@suprotyv7534 Ай бұрын

His story is nothing compared to what kidnapped Ukrainian civilians and soldiers face in Russian prisons.

@hassanbeydoun2460 2 ай бұрын

2:00 Handsome guy😌 Seems like a cool guy from the interview

@cousinivoryciv1309 Ай бұрын

the VHS timer/PLAY effect is kinda silly, at least change the time when u edit the cuts ...

@steveeuphrates-river7342 Ай бұрын

Very interesting story!

@sethbucy Ай бұрын

The reel noises between each cut really take away from the intensity of the interview.

@joshs3916 2 ай бұрын

Scary stuff

@hansolowe19 5 күн бұрын

Very interesting.

@amehwican 2 ай бұрын

For a second there I thought the thumbnail said “schizo guard”

@sandydancer187 2 ай бұрын

Cheeky clickbait. They knew what they were doing lol.

@kamikazekhan2832 2 ай бұрын

😭😭😭 nah convicted for stealing ALL the oil is crazy

@austinhowell3463 2 ай бұрын

Undisputed movies gave me all the info I need to know about russian prisons

@Nick_B_Bad 2 ай бұрын

😂 I never seen past the first one with Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames.

@austinhowell3463 2 ай бұрын

@@Nick_B_Bad te second one is pretty solid as well

@ShermanT.Potter 2 ай бұрын

I wonder why the colonies were so nervous about the complaints, couldn't they censor the mail?

@CtOlaf 2 ай бұрын

Prisoners give them to their lawyers, or directly to the court.

@ShermanT.Potter 2 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 2 ай бұрын

@@ShermanT.PotterFair???😂😂😂 So Navalny was treated kind of fairly?

@ShermanT.Potter 2 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 2 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

@samshepperrd 2 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.

@Joe-ym6bw Ай бұрын

I feel bad for this man Russian prisons are tough he seems like a decent guy

@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 Ай бұрын

Mogs me, I didn't leave my house once in 2024.

@misstekhead 8 күн бұрын

Same. I did time for a year. Unfortunately I violated probation, but thankfully I only spent a week in jail. I was assigned to a better public defender and a new judge had been voted in for my court, so I was lucky to have probation dismissed and get out the next day. “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty! Free at last!” 😊

@TheHumbleThinker 2 ай бұрын

Eipstein would have been glad to hear your story.

@am3m3r Ай бұрын

Wasn’t there a movie based on the downfall of yukos oil company and this guy?

@victormusembi1965 2 ай бұрын

Torturing prisoners is not good. Especially when a prisoner who is innocent.

@Fckterrorism-vr2kq 2 ай бұрын

*Laughs in american prison*

@JohnDoe-lx5rm 2 ай бұрын

Its normal in russia, always has been

@zivkovicable 2 ай бұрын

@@JohnDoe-lx5rm While not quite on the same level, the USA has some terrible prisons too by first world standards..

@JohnDoe-lx5rm 2 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

@harvey2609 Ай бұрын

Remember that scene in "The Wire"? "This is not prison. This is nothing." --- Sergie

@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын

Hahaha! How long could you stay in "not a prizon"? one or three minutes?

@harvey2609 Ай бұрын

@@user-jq9nv8ys1c It's a line from a TV show. A Russian guy is saying this about American prison. Never mind 🤫

@PumpedAntics Ай бұрын

@@user-jq9nv8ys1creading comprehension non existent

@misstekhead 8 күн бұрын

I was thinking of that exact scene as I watched this.

@flippy66 Ай бұрын

The Russian bots and UIs love these videos 🤣

@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын

it makes them crazy!

@martinthemillwright 7 күн бұрын

This man is a saint. I wish him a long life.

@invisibledave 2 ай бұрын

Luckily for him, he never got near any upper story windows.

@Golgi-Gyges 2 ай бұрын

My name is Vladimir, but everyone calls me Georgio

@Gettenhart 2 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

@Crown42 2 ай бұрын

This is why i respect the Voryz V Zakone. They started their organization because of the hardships that they endured in prison.

@TheqDwatertower 17 күн бұрын

На самом деле грустно осознавать, что именно это происходит в нашей стране. И они никогда это не исправят, это все равно, что стоять 7 лет в аду, радуясь тому, что он может жить, не страдая даже больше, чем ему пришлось пережить, потому что российская полиция никогда не будет добра к тебе, когда ты попадешь туда, они примут тебя как животное, а не как это. Все, что может превратить твою жвою жизнь в дерьмо. 😬😬😬

@Leith_Crowther 2 ай бұрын

Overpaid Russian adds flooding the comments.

@balkanhistrian2883 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and payment is good

@westnilesnipes 2 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?

@JahStyles 2 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.

@sassygunslinger 7 күн бұрын

i met a political prison from russia in a nursing home in the UK in 1999. he had no fingernails or toe nails and his testicules had been electricuted . they were hudge and badly burned. he has very bad scaring all over him.he struggled when the door was closed to his room. he had a bottle of vodka a night to knock him out to stop him waking and screaming out. when we first had him he attacked us screaming about being in a cell and being beaten..after that his door was left open and he got up when he was ready. evenutally he talked and we all just cried to hear what happened to him..he could speak five languages.. he came to stay at the nursing home to recouperated after his release. ive never in my life seen such pain in a mans voice as his. he smiled every morning and thanked us for his care. .A once in a life time chance to meet a very brave man. evenually he felt he could finally have a home of his own and with support left. i will never forget him to this day.

@Zaratustra. 11 сағат бұрын

Just some unbiased, wikipedia information here: He was a manager for one of the Russian oligarchs oil companies Yukos, where the head of that company had political ambitions. Yukos, like any other oil company, was extremely corrupt, responsible for killing and executing their rivals. Maybe you've heard of owner - Mikhail xodorkovskiy. Long story short, this isn't your "typical" prisoner story. Do your own research people

@RBTVN Ай бұрын

Would take everything this guy says with a very large pinch of salt.

@epampoefmkfkefpeao4291 Ай бұрын

of course you found a person that was sentenced for crime they “didn’t commit”

@misanthropicphilanthropy 2 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 ❤

@vanderlinde4you Ай бұрын

I assume he's living far away from russia as we speak.

@mikeljackson9192 24 күн бұрын

Deutschland

@Mattnsarah 21 күн бұрын

Very interesting story

@mokster5 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Navalny was murdered by prisoners...

@TheNethIafin 2 ай бұрын

have you seen his ads from like 15 years ago?

@theworldofwoo8320 2 ай бұрын

Navalny the MI6 agent? That guy?

@shaiaheyes2c41 2 ай бұрын

How could you not have heard of Alexei Navalny's death until now?

@suprotyv7534 Ай бұрын

@@user-jq9nv8ys1c he was murdered by Putin

@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 Ай 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 26 күн бұрын

Most crimes are either committed in the heat of the moment or by people who assume they won't get caught.

@dislike7973 Ай бұрын

If it wasnt for Russias tough prison system we would not had the chance to hear this amazing story

@fieryweasel 2 ай бұрын

Well, it was nice knowing this guy.

@Fckterrorism-vr2kq 2 ай бұрын

If he's in an american channel he's probably very safe.

@minenotyours212 2 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 2 ай бұрын

You think they just let people go for weed possession in Russia?;😂

@minenotyours212 2 ай бұрын

@@John-mf6ky ya if you’re an oligarch

@revenone1077 2 ай бұрын

@@John-mf6ky Usually its a fine, it depends how much you have.

@Fckterrorism-vr2kq 2 ай бұрын

@@revenone1077 NoOoOo VlAdImIr Its MucH wOrSE ThaN wHaT yOu sAyInG bOt mY MuRiCa Is tHe bEsT RuzZiA bAd WAaAaAa (RAaAaAH)

@Salted_Fysh 2 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. 🦆👍🦆

@BruceLee-rc2dr Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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

@freedomofspeech2867 Ай бұрын

I mean for actual hardcore criminals this is fair treatment but they should just like, stop jailing innocent people.

@arye52 3 күн бұрын

Excellent and sad story

@katelynnsgiraffe6456 2 ай бұрын

and here comes all the americans to tell how wonderful the US prison system is and its the best in the world.

@risenacademy189 Ай бұрын

Guantanamo Bay, do a video on that as well that's actually how crime works

@dr.woozie7500 2 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.

@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?

@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

@Somebody_else_u_know 2 ай бұрын

Random Cat: Yep. Random Spider: The way it goes around. Non-Random Skidrow Tramp: Let's have some bitter tea...

@MrJakobMovies Ай бұрын

38 seconds in and it seems way more horrible than american prisons

@ssherrierable Ай бұрын

He just said “this is how crime works “ I thought you never committed any crime? 😂😂😂

@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын

Is it not obvious, that in this case the crime was commited by the state authorities ?

@user-jq9nv8ys1c Ай бұрын

Hahaha! What a clever comment!

@WashingtonStateStyleDoorDash Ай бұрын

You're not the brightest bulb in the drawer are you?

@None-ss1zi 2 ай бұрын

Every prisoner ever: I'm innocent, bro.

@user-jq9nv8ys1c 2 ай бұрын

Where did you heard such a boolsheet? Have you been in prison?

@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 😅

@djtomoy 2 ай бұрын

I expect they work like normal prisons, bad guys go in…good guys come out

@gayprepperz6862 4 күн бұрын

Some Oligarch framed him to take the fall for his own crime. People who whine about how bad the US is should watch this. Bethany Griner was humbled (at first).

@jackwood8307 Ай бұрын

❤

@Forsasd-32349asdf 20 күн бұрын

When you realize that they do this in American Prisons while letting the real criminials run in the streets or work in all the three letter agencies.

@66rowrow 2 ай бұрын

Excellent work 👏 Next do Guantanamo bay 👍

@iCover480 2 ай бұрын

The oil company broke the cardinal sin of not cutting Putin in on the deals.

@AWGragg007 2 ай бұрын

Damn...this guy was put through a total nightmare for nothing. I can imagine the anger, confusion, panic and fear of being held and eventually convicted for something you did not even do.

@scy1038 Ай бұрын

Everyone hated them until 2020, for some weird reason.

@karbonaterol7625 Ай бұрын

0:24 like the other guy who was said truth against america? assange

@dfui. 2 ай бұрын

How does Biden's Prisons Work?

@Fckterrorism-vr2kq 2 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.

@jiyushugi1085 5 күн бұрын

Read 'The Gulag Archipelago', it's all there.

@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?

@misstekhead 8 күн бұрын

He wasn’t completely innocent, and he did associate with criminals. However, he became the fall guy in comparison to those that really should have been in prison.

@behindthen0thing 5 күн бұрын

@@user-jq9nv8ys1c what's a track driver

@hughmcdonnell849 Ай бұрын

Why don’t you visit Julian Assange and tell him your sob story!

@malbig2344 2 ай бұрын

Eyebrows

@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 2 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 2 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 2 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.

@JudeObianumba-vg4hj Ай бұрын

😢😢😢😢😢

@skullandbones1832 2 ай бұрын

👍

@paulfrank9047 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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 ?

@heyysimone Ай 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 Ай 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