The nation is holding Alexey Navalny in a detention center though according to Navalny's lawyer and Russia is apparently planning to transfer him to a penal colony, a remote settlement for prisoners.
Serving as Prime Minister in its first coalition government, he then overthrew the president Sir James Mancham in a coup detat the following year, forcing him into exile.
In the same year that Hitler invaded Poland, two Jewish scientists exiled from Nazi Germany - Rudolf Peierls, and Otto Frish first realised uranium's power as a weapon of war.
It was exile he was after — that very particular state in which one is free not to belong anywhere in particular, to escape all tribes in order to be unobserved, anonymous and detached.