Kremlin foe Alexey Navalny located in Arctic jail weeks after contact lost

The Russian opposition leader has been tracked down to a prison above the Arctic Circle, one of the harshest in Russia.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been tracked down to a prison north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman says after supporters lost touch with him for more than two weeks.

Kira Yarmysh on Monday said Navalny is in the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.

Navalny’s lawyer managed to…