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16 January 2026
The prison guards of “Izolyatsia” replicated torture methods shown in the American film The Mauritanian: the account of Daniil Bulhakov about his three years in the “DPR” prisons
In an interview with ZMINA, Daniil Bulhakov described how people in the "DPR" were imprisoned just so their property and businesses could be taken over, how things changed in prisons when the Russians took over, how he met British prisoners Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner at the colony, where they were facing the death penalty, and how the guards of "Izolyatsia" borrowed ideas for torture from the film "The Mauritanian."