Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has placed pro-Kremlin blogger Ilya Remeslo in pretrial detention for two months. He is charged with spreading “fake” information about the Russian army motivated by political hatred under Paragraph “d,” Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code. His lawyer, Sergei Badamshin, reported the arrest.
According to the defense attorney, the criminal case was triggered by “that very manifesto published exactly four months ago.” The reference is to a series of posts published by Remeslo in March 2026, in which he criticized Vladimir Putin.
In those posts, the blogger blamed the president for starting the war, damaging Russia’s economy, imposing censorship on the internet and the media, and usurping power while suppressing the opposition.
A few days after the posts appeared, it became known that Remeslo had been placed in a psychiatric hospital. He spent about a month there before being released.
Remeslo is known as a pro-Kremlin blogger who built his public profile through campaigns against Alexei Navalny. He claimed that his own denunciation led to the criminal fraud case over donations opened against the politician.
Remeslo described himself as a “lawyer,” an “investigator,” and a “law-abiding citizen.” He has now himself become a defendant in a political case under Russia’s law on “fake” information about the army.