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Russian blogger Ilya Remeslo was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after making public statements against Vladimir Putin
Ilya Remeslo wrote the manifesto “Five reasons why I stopped supporting Putin”. Hours later, he was hospitalized.
Ilya Crafts was one of the best-known bloggers in favor of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Defended the actions of Vladimir Putin, do Kremlin.
He publicly attacked opponent Alexei Navalny. In fact, he was accused of being an accomplice in .
Until, precisely a week ago, he wrote the manifesto “Five reasons why I stopped supporting Putin”. He announced that he changed sides. It was a “personal evolution” and that he was on a new “mission in his life.
He began to change his stance on Russia’s president in 2023, when Yevgeny Prigozhin led one against the Kremlin. Prigozhin two months later.
Ilya Remeslo is aware that his change of stance may seem contradictory and that he is aware of the risks that runs when publishing that manifesto.
At the same time, he assured that he was not going to flee Russia and commented that expected political change in his country in 2026. And he hoped to be seen as a “hero” on the day Putin stopped leading Russia.
And Remeslo really took a risk, in the manifesto: he wrote that Vladimir Putin is a “war criminal” and a “thief” who wants to remain in power for the next 150 years, “at least”; that it is being a “failure”; criticized the lack of freedom of expression.
Hours after publishing his manifesto, it was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. It’s incommunicado.
Dmitry Oreshkin, political scientist, says that the blogger was forcibly interned: “The authorities inevitably had to react harshly. If you don’t want to turn him into a hero, you need some way to humiliate him. If he went off the rails and became hysterical, you need to isolate it somehow.”
The place where he was admitted is Psychiatric Clinic No. 3 in Saint Petersburg – which has a dark reputation, reminiscent of the times of USSR.
