Pro-Kremlin Blogger Arrested After Criticizing Putin and Ukraine War
A formerly pro-Kremlin blogger, Ilya Remeslo, has been arrested for 'war fakes' months after denouncing Putin and criticizing the war in Ukraine. He faces two more months in pretrial detention after a previous psychiatric hospitalization.
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Russian courts target two outspoken critics of war in Ukraine
Russian authorities have detained a blogger who criticised President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine and fined an anti-war politician, as Moscow sends a warning signal to critics of the Kremlin ahead of September’s parliamentary election. Although Putin maintains a near-total grip on power, he and the dominant United Russia party are under pressure […]
Read full article →Pro-Kremlin Blogger Arrested for ‘War Fakes’ Months After Denouncing Putin
In March, Ilya Remeslo shocked both supporters and critics when he publicly denounced President Vladimir Putin in a scathing manifesto.
Read full article →After a (now formerly) pro-Kremlin blogger criticized Putin in March, he spent a month in a psychiatric hospital. Now he faces two more months in pretrial detention.
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has ordered Ilya Remeslo, a pro-government blogger and informant, held in pretrial detention for two months. Remeslo faces charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, motivated by political hatred, his defense attorney Sergei Badamshin said.
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