After examining his mouth, the doctors asked Ilya Yashin to politely forward their compliments to his dentist in the free world.
"They praised my lungs and said my heart was doing a good job," says the 39-year-old opposition politician, who was imprisoned because he had spoken out against Vladimir Putin's war.
The warm introduction to the Sizo 1 prison in Ischewsk, a barren former slaughterhouse and the new home of the Kremlin critic for the next ten years, did not end with it.
In contrast to the aggressive propaganda, which was broadcast by a television in his cell, Mr. Yashin said, who sent handwritten answers to The Telegraph this week that he had not yet learned hostility to him.
"respectful and personable"
"In the prisons of Moscow and Udmurtia, to which I have recently been moved, I came across a surprisingly respectful and compassionate attitude of inmates and guards," writes Mr. Yashin in a 12-page letter that was written with a quiet hand.
"In my opinion, the popularity of war in Russian society is quite exaggerated."
Mr. Jaschin was one of the last remaining public votes in Russia when he was imprisoned in December because he had dared to comment on war crimes in the Kiev suburb.
Mr. Yashin, a Moscow council member and moderator of a popular YouTube channel, opposed a new law that Putin signed after the invasion and that made it a crime to call the invasion as a "war", let alone talk about Russian atrocities.
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