‘I tried to ensure those years weren’t lost’
How a Russian inmate sued Moscow, told off Yevgeny Prigozhin, and popularized Meduza in his prison Alexander Paranuk In 2014, Yekaterinburg native Alexander Paranuk was arrested on what he says were fabricated drug charges. He spent most of the next decade in prison. But that didn’t stop him from becoming a writer, producing his own prison news program, getting into a verbal tussle with Yevgeny Prigozhin, and disseminating more than a few Meduza articles among his fellow inmates.