Blogger Makes Own Prison Uniform in Colonia
Blogger Arsen Markaryan, serving a 4.5-year sentence in a correctional colony in Torzhok, Tver Oblast, became a tailor to sew his own prison uniform after no suitable size was available, and has since lost weight and maintained an intense fitness routine.
Consensus
- Arsen Markaryan is serving a 4.5-year prison sentence in IK-4 in Torzhok, Tver Oblast.
- Markaryan became a tailor in the colony to sew his own prison uniform.
- No suitable size of prison uniform was available, so he had to combine two sets.
- Markaryan lost weight after being held in pre-trial detention, dropping from 137.5 kg to 109 kg in 22 days.
- Markaryan currently weighs around 112 kg and aims to reach 80 kg.
- Other inmates nicknamed him 'White Bear' due to his size and gait.
- Markaryan continues to train, including bench pressing 100 kg for 12 reps, using parallel bars, and working on his core.
- He eats only between 16:00 and 21:00, favoring eggs, cutlets, vegetables, and cottage cheese with honey.
- He experiments with spicy pepper in coffee and chocolate made from the chanterelle mushroom.
- Markaryan compares his prison term to the time he spent playing Dota, estimating around 40,000 hours from 2007 to 2025.
- He was convicted for rehabilitating Nazism.
Points of divergence
- Markaryan has been training with a former bodybuilder and a master of sports in powerlifting. — riamo
- The first appellate court in Moscow did not satisfy Markaryan's appeal against the verdict on the Nazi rehabilitation case. — vm
- Markaryan has a personal interaction with the former bodybuilder in the gym. — tg_mash
Coverage (4 sources)
- Blogger Arsen Markaryan became a tailor in a colony to sew himself a suitable robe — РИАМО
- Convicted blogger Markaryan sewn his own robe in the colony — Вести
- Blogger Arsen Markaryan became a tailor in a colony due to lack of suitable clothes — Вечерняя Москва
- Aren Markaryan became a tailor in a general regime prison to sew himself a suitable robe — there was no suitable size for him... — Mash