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Ilya Remeslo, once a pro-Kremlin blogger who helped spur criminal charges against Navalny, publicly denounced Vladimir Putin, calling for his resignation and trial as a war criminal; after a controversial hospitalization, he continued criticizing Putin and was detained in July on charges of spreading fake news about Russia’s military.
A jailed blogger-turned-critic, Ilya Remeslo, was detained in St. Petersburg on charges of spreading false information about the armed forces and faces up to 10 years, with a hearing to determine pretrial restrictions; at the same time, opposition figure Boris Nadezhdin was tried in Moscow, fined 1,000 rubles, and released after being designated a foreign agent, a move that blocks him from running in September elections—signaling intensified repression of dissent ahead of the vote.