Mikhail Khodorkovsky once said that in prison “every separate day is slow, but months and years pass unnoticed.”

Today, Khodorkovsky’s 3653 endless days of imprisonment turned into 10 years that flashed by. Today, Russia’s political prisoners write about their own one day in prison.

The Khodorkovsky Press Centre is deeply grateful to the authors of the prison essays below. 

• Nikolai Kavkazsky

(Spent more than a year in detention in the “Bolotnaya case” and under house arrest since 2 August 2013)

• Sergei Mokhnatkin

(Spent almost 2 years in prison)

• Vladimir Bukovsky

(Spent a total of 12 years in imprisonment and in forced treatment)

• Alexandr Podrabinek

(Spent 5.5 years in prison)

• Yana Yakovleva

(Spent 7 months in prison)

• Eduard Limonov

(Spent 2.5 years in prison)

• Grigory Pasko

(Spent 2 years and 8 months in prison)

• Alexei Kozlov

(Spent 4.5 years in prison)

• Valeria Novodvorskaya

(Spent almost 4 years in prison)

• Sergei Kovalev

(Spent 7 years in prison and 3 years in exile)

• Boris Nemtsov

(Spent 15 days in prison)