Alexei Navalny Meduza: Navalny aide says prison guards threw away his father’s pain medication By Meduza. Published Aug. 13, 2021 at 4:58 pm People use their mobile phones in front of the local office of Alexei Navalny's team in the Siberian city of Omsk on Aug. 23, 2020. Photo by AFP Top Navalny aide Ivan Zhdanov says Russian prison guards confiscated his jailed father’s pain medication and threw it away. Read more here.