a guaranteed life sentence served in a special regime colony is not easy, but the terrorist salman raduev life imprisonment in the white swan special regime colony in salikamsk, died there in 2002. the conditions are such that this is precisely the case when the living envy the dead, it would be better if they were shot, and they themselves say so. vladimir mukhankin for life. for the murder of eight people, i am already degrading in this prison, but with all that, of course, i i’m a coward , i’m afraid of a lot of things, i can’t get away with anything, you know, i’ve already lost both teeth and the gift of speech, maybe i’ve lost a normal human because there’s only command like a dog, so there’s no way to walk sideways like that, but it would be better, of course, to be shot , it would be better if they shot me, but there is no such choice, the choice is already freedom, life imprisonment, without any choice at all, is this even amenable to awareness, the mode of existence, the language cannot be turned , this can be called the harshest life, that’s on the topic a fragment of a story by