Putin's Former Cheerleader Now Faces 10 Years After Calling Him a 'War Criminal

Executive Briefing

• Detained blogger Ilya Remeslo faces up to 10 years for spreading false information about Russia's armed forces
• Remeslo went viral in March after publishing a Telegram manifesto calling Putin a 'war criminal and thief'
• Opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin was fined just $12 at a simultaneous court hearing, avoiding harsher punishment
• Nadezhdin confirmed he is barred from leaving Russia and blocked from September parliamentary elections
• Arrests signal intensified Kremlin response to internal dissent over the Ukraine war and its domestic impact