Alexei Navalny discovered in remote Arctic penal colony

Alexei Navalny supporters demonstrate outside the home of the Russian ambassador in Berlin. Photograph: Paul Zinken/AP

The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been located in a remote prison colony above the Arctic Circle after going missing for nearly three weeks, his aides have said.

Navalny was tracked down to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Monday. “We have found Alexei Navalny,” she wrote on X.