'I hope I am the last to endure this': Alexei Navalny's devastating prison letters to Russian dissident Natan Sharansky who spent nine years locked up in same gulag isolation cells

Alexei Navalny shared letters laced with dark humor, religious references, and grim insights into prison life with gulag survivor Natan Sharansky in the year before he died, it has been revealed.

Navalny, 47, who was the strongest domestic political force opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin, exchanged deeply personal memos with Israel’s former deputy prime minister Sharansky, 76, in March and April 2023.

In his first note, he wrote ‘I hope I am the last to endure this’, just less…