Navalny is forced to listen to pro-Putin pop at 5 in the morning

Brutally repressed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny complains of being poisoned, assaulted and denied proper medical care, but this week he revealed he faces a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer every morning at 5 o'clock , the Guardian reported.
Navalny, 47, a former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a decade ago by mocking President Vladimir Putin's elite and making allegations of massive corruption, is now in prison about 60km north of the Arctic Circle.
Sentenced to prison until the age of 74 on charges he says were framed to keep him out of politics, Navalny said his morning routine now consisted of listening to the Russian national anthem before he was let " I'm a Russian" - a patriotic song performed by a pro-Putin singer named "Shaman".
Shaman, whose real name is Yaroslav Dronov, is riding a wave of military patriotism to become a major figure on state television, and is one of the celebrities who are officially suggesting that Putin run again for the presidency in March.
His song, which he sometimes performs wearing a black leather suit with an arm band in the colors of the Russian flag - "I am a Russian" - talks about how Russians cannot be "broken", "go all the way" and carry the blood of their fathers.
The 32-year-old singer caused controversy in November when he simulated the detonation of a nuclear bomb at a concert broadcast on state television, pressing a red button inside a mock-up nuclear briefcase, then fireworks exploded around him.
In an X message prepared by his allies, Navalny described his surreal morning routine.
"The singer Shaman became famous when I was already in prison, so I could neither see him nor listen to his music. But I knew that he had become Putin's main singer. And that his main song was "I am "Russian," Navalny claims.
"Of course, I was curious to hear her, but where could I listen to her in prison. And then they took me to Yamal (the place where his arctic prison is located). And here every day at 5 o'clock in the morning we hear the command: " Stand up!", followed by the Russian national anthem, and immediately after that, the country's second most important song - Shaman's "I'm a Russian" - announced the dissident.
"The irony is that state propaganda once highlighted the fact that he marched with Russian nationalists in annual parades, and now, years later, he's being played an ultra-nationalist educational pop song while doing his morning exercise in prison ", he added.
"To be honest, I'm still not sure that I understand correctly what post-irony and meta-irony are. But if it's not that, then what is it?" Navalny joked./BGNES