The founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny , filed a lawsuit against a strict regime penal colony in Melehovo, Vladimir Region, as its management refused to disclose data about the customer of the products that prisoners produce in the colony.

According to TASS, Navalny was refused due to "the lack of consent of customers to disseminate data on the manufacture of their products in correctional institutions."

Navalny believes that the refusal is illegal, illegal and unreasonable.

In mid-July, Navalny described his work in the colony as follows:

“We sew some stupid straps and, to be honest, I’m sure they just throw them away right away, and all this was invented to keep the strange underground industrial zone of my “prison in prison” busy with work.

On March 22, the court sentenced Alexei Navalny to 9 years of strict regime in the case of "fraud and insulting the court."