Kremlin crackdown widens as Remeslo detained and Nadezhdin fined
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.
