Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said today that he had joined a prison sewing workshop and become a “tailor”, joking that the experience had changed his attitude towards feminists.
Navalny, 45, said on Instagram that authorities in his own detention camp are asking inmates to work and giving them a choice between different jobs such as cooking, baking and sewing.
He said he chose to do what the prison administration calls a seamstress (“shveya” in Russian), even though the word is grammatically feminine and is usually used only for women.
In his post he joked that the word must also have a masculine gender in Russian. This experience made him see with more sympathy people who in the past have been ridiculed for asking for new female essentials like “blogerka”, for a female blogger.
“Society, I’m officially asking for a male for the ‘tailor’ profession,” he said.
Navalny, a well-known critic of President Vladimir Putin, began serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a prison east of Moscow in March for violating the terms of his previous release.
His latest Instagram post came the day Putin is expected to videotape US President Joe Biden.
The United States imposed sanctions on Russia in March over its neurotoxicity poisoning of Navalny last year, a claim Moscow denies.
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