Well Alexey Navalny had that debate with Strelkov on a stint while he was not in jail for once! (He makes his way into jail every 90 days or so. This month, it’s Leonid Volkov, his campaign manager currently sitting in a prison at Ninny Novgorod.)
And you know regarding “free press” well...they try...
“Russia blocks the nationalist website ‘Sputnik & Pogrom’ according to a familiar, vague censorship formula”
What kind of stuff is this Navalny fella getting charged with?
Is it trumped up, or legitimate violations of law?
I know here in the US people in power are able to rig the prosecutorial system to benefit their friends and punish their enemies.
Sometimes it’s egregious.
I suspect other countries have a similar problem.