Blogger who criticised Putin has been put in psychiatric facility, local newspaper reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/blogger-who-criticised-putin-has-been-put-psychiatric-facility-local-newspaper-2026-03-19/

Posted by Neversetinstone

32 Comments

  1. Unlikely_Target_3560 on

    Lmao. Just yesterday i watched a reporting on his revalations where the reporter was wondering, would anything happen to the guy after such act of open rebelion. And he didnt even last full 24 hours XD

  2. And yet there are so many people defending him, my parents included. The power of the media is incredible, the fascist realized this 100 years ago…

  3. StrangerConscious637 on

    # My wish headline would be:

    # “Putin who criticised Blogger has been put in psychiatric facility, local newspaper reports

  4. OldInterest8904 on

    Psychiatrist helping evil men do evil things wow, this never happened before I’m so surprised, psychiatrist totally wants the best for people

  5. He must of been suicidal and thinking of jumping, he is now receiving special “treatment”

  6. Think of how weak you have to be, as a person, to not allow criticism of your decisions. All those dictators are pathetic.

  7. That’s how they dealt with our President as well after occupying Estonia before WW2 started. Our president was put into a psychiatric facility for forced treatment, where he eventually died. Overall he spent ca 12 years in various psychoneurotic hospitals under forced treatment.

    It was a typical thing by Soviets, political enemies were declared mentally unstable, sometimes schizophrenics, and put under mandatory treatments, during which they often died. Essentially tortured to death in captivity.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

  8. If he is lucky they will throw him off the roof of a car park! I can’t imagine what he was thinking. If I had no family, and was in his position and was just diagnosed with a fast aggressive cancer; I might have said what he said…. But it would have been 2 minutes before I got on a plane to Singapore, and I would be buying plane tickets every day for months if I lived that long. Putin loves to torture his enemies to death.

  9. Successful_Dig_2264 on

    But all the Russia fans keep telling us we have no free speech! I am so shocked!

  10. truttatrotta on

    “Psychiatric facility” is probably being tortured by the FSB in a room with soundproofing on the walls.

  11. He must have heard from this doctor that he had only a short time to live. The only explanation i can think of.

  12. Any-Original-6113 on

    Given that the blogger’s commitment to a psychiatric institution was insisted upon by his father (a well-known psychiatrist himself), this looks like an attempt to shield him from imprisonment and ensure he’s held in comfortable conditions if legal proceedings go ahead.

  13. HotPotParrot on

    2 weeks tops until Trump tries something like this instead of just bad hints that he desperately wants to