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Questions & Help Mar 19, 2026 at 1:32 PM

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

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

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aaronhayes26 Mar 19, 2026 +543
In case anybody wants to know the end result of the “derangement syndrome” rhetoric, this is it.
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Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 19, 2026 +126
And just this week they're threatening networks who have bad things to say about the Iran war.
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outerproduct Mar 19, 2026 +64
No, not even reporting bad things, just reporting the facts.
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lordkappy Mar 20, 2026 +5
Oddly coincidental that the facts are all bad things.
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Blametheorangejuice Mar 19, 2026 +47
I took a few Master's classes on Soviet history. It feels more and more like America is lurching toward Kruschev-style governance.
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JiveChicken00 Mar 20, 2026 +9
That’s an insult to Khrushchev.
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ducklingkwak Mar 19, 2026 +7
Are we...the bad guys?
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SlipperyFetuss Mar 19, 2026 +12
Always were
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pl487 Mar 19, 2026 +5
Nah, they're just going to kill us. No need for any of that fancy stuff over here. We all know the score.
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TemporaryElk5202 Mar 20, 2026 -16
What if this guy publicly criticised putin because mentally illness affected his risk taking behavior though. People know thats dangerous.
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Sic_Semper_Dumbasses Mar 19, 2026 +356
Only to be dead within the week.
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mwilkens Mar 19, 2026 +136
Why kill him in a week when you can torture him for a lifetime.
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s0n1cm4yh3m Mar 19, 2026 +58
In this economy???
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progrethth Mar 19, 2026 +32
Send him to the front lines instead, that seems cheaper.
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Lettuce_bee_free_end Mar 19, 2026 +8
Ai hasn't taken that job yet. 
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Donnicton Mar 19, 2026 +1
Sentence: Marrow Furnace
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mudokin Mar 19, 2026 +3
Well if you kill him in a week he probably was tortured for the rest of his life.
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das_gingerz Mar 19, 2026 +2
Why waste a window that someone hasn't jumped out of yet?
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davidmlewisjr Mar 19, 2026 +1
Food is expensive, why incur the costs?
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mwilkens Mar 19, 2026 +2
For pleasure of torturing your enemies. His life can suck a whole lot worse than the sweet escape of death.
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bobbycorwin123 Mar 20, 2026 +1
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jonnyrottwn Mar 19, 2026 +18
Fell from a basement window...why coverup anymore
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BrowningBDA9 Mar 19, 2026 +1
Rather, it would be more along the lines of "fell on a nail several dozens of times", or maybe went Ajax Telamonides and fell on a ~~sword~~ knife. For instance, Russian hoodlums, the gopniks, love using such an explanation whenever there's a stabbing either at streets or in prisons.
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maceman10006 Mar 19, 2026 +4
Part of me still wonders what happened to those 4 terrorists from the Moscow 2024 terror attack.
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BrowningBDA9 Mar 19, 2026 +1
They got sentenced to life in prison the other day as far as I'm concerned, but they were very brutally tortured shortly after capture and afterwards. What is especially ironic is that the torturers were Chechens, Muslims just like them.
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Stranger1982 Mar 19, 2026 +8
I bet the facility has quite a few windows.
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redsparks2025 Mar 20, 2026 +1
I use to live near a psychiatric facility (in my nation, not Russia) and they had bars on all the windows. We use to know which kids would sneak in to swim in their outdoor pool because it was heavily chlorinated and as such turn their blonde hair green.
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davidmlewisjr Mar 19, 2026 +2
He should not stand near any windows above the first floor.
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Ludwigofthepotatoppl Mar 19, 2026 +2
They’ll torture him until he publicly recants, then take him to a nice dacha in siberia
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Old-Ad-3268 Mar 19, 2026 +2
If he is on a high floor don't get close to a window, if he is on a low floor it'll be a slow poisoning
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aradraugfea Mar 19, 2026 +41
When asked why he was committed, an anonymous source was quoted as saying “Of course he’s crazy! He criticized Putin! He *kills* people.” /j
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whatacharacter Mar 19, 2026 +113
Prior to this, they would just accuse someone of having Putin Derangement Syndrome.
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heyhayyhay Mar 20, 2026 +4
The unfunny thing about this, is tRUMP wants to do the exact same thing here.
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steve_ample Mar 19, 2026 +27
Where he will commit permanent self-harm as an inmate, suchahorribleatragedymycondolences, no doubt.
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razvanciuy Mar 19, 2026 +20
Sort off. Russia tends to wrap you up in wool clothing and rubber baton smack key spots on your body for long term organ failure, without visible bruising; like the liver, kidneys or joints. Couple that with zero medical care. And it can get more brutal.
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Several-Opposite-746 Mar 19, 2026 +69
A classic soviet era method of dealing with dessenters was to ship them off to insane asylums.
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poukai Mar 19, 2026 +37
Oh, that was quick. Is this a high rise psychiatric facility? You know, one with a lot of windows?
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TheSolarExpansionist Mar 19, 2026 +1
Jump Wood have been mercy. He’ll be tortured wishing he was dead
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MagicalTrianglez Mar 19, 2026 +49
Lol - read about his posts yesterday and all the comments were ‘he’s dead in 5,4,3,2,1…’ Trying to imagine the thought process of people that see all this and conclude Putin is the good guy.
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ClawingDevil Mar 19, 2026 +33
Get yourself a press pass to the White House and you can ask directly!
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Some_Conference2091 Mar 19, 2026 +12
This one Russian trick silences critical voices.
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OutlawSundown Mar 19, 2026 +3
Yep skip trial straight to psych ward.
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Plenty_Beautiful_547 Mar 19, 2026 +131
This is what America 🇺🇸 aspires to
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Tapprunner Mar 19, 2026 +7
I hope Joe Kent has moved himself and his family to an undisclosed location.
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razvanciuy Mar 19, 2026 +7
they *were* moved
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Nullhitter Mar 20, 2026 -14
"How do I make this about the big bad USA?" - you Anything for the upvotes, I guess.
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Detroit72 Mar 19, 2026 +11
That happened pretty fast, impressive.
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Neither-Sale-4132 Mar 19, 2026 +3
Russian justice system is very efficient.
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apoca1ypse12 Mar 19, 2026 +11
Putin is the only one that needs to be put in a psychiatric facility. A cancer on the face of this planet
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WontArnett Mar 19, 2026 +10
This is where republicans are taking the US
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TwoPoundzaSausage Mar 19, 2026 +9
Nothing new. The Russians have been using psychiatric treatment as a weapon to suppress political dissent since they were still the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
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NnyBees Mar 19, 2026 +15
They took "it's crazy to criticize Putin" literally.
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Bicentennial_Douche Mar 19, 2026 +6
Guy is going to end up lobotomized. 
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diener1 Mar 19, 2026 +6
Well at least Putin fully acknowledges that he has turned Russia into such a totalitarian hell that you have to be crazy to criticize him.
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oldfogey12345 Mar 19, 2026 +6
I bet that is the world's tallest psychiatric facility.
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razvanciuy Mar 19, 2026 +5
He was a big blogger, long time supporter of putin. This is next level degeneration of their regime. Psychiatric place is fitting for the situation as portraying it as madness is their only way out of the madness they are trying to conceal. Typical soviet secret police path for when you call out "war criminal" and such.
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NYGiants181 Mar 19, 2026 +8
This is so messed up. Was Russia always like this?
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OutlawSundown Mar 19, 2026 +13
Yes their history is generally pretty f’d up going back to at least the Mongolians doing their thing. The Democratic experiment of the 90s was a blip. That was the time to bail out the Russian economy and the west missed the boat and opened the door for Putin.
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ContrarianDouche Mar 19, 2026 +3
>That was the time to bail out the Russian economy and the west missed the boat and opened the door for Putin. There's an argument to be made that Putin made his name on the democratic reforms and moving the oligarchy from the Mafia to the Kremlin. He played nice with the west and got the benefits of Western integration to make the Russian populace love him, while massively enriching himself and his cronies and consolidating power into his own hands. Then Bill Browder and Hermitage Capital exposed a massive theft of Russian Treasury funds by Putin's oligarchs and he had to shift to a more confrontational stance with the West to tamp down his internal issues.
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UselessInsight Mar 19, 2026 +7
Yes. The USSR was like this and the Russian Empire before was also like this.
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AvidCyclist250 Mar 19, 2026 +3
Yes, since forever. It's a constantly failing "state". A quirk that relies on the Slavic love for misery and abilty to endure it. Acquired by hiding in miserable marshlands for about 2,000 years. And then getting pelted nonstop from all directions upon emerging on the worldstage, and walking into near-empty lands to colonise them right before and after shit hit the fan.
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L_Cranston_Shadow Mar 20, 2026 +1
The history of Russia can be summed up in five words, "and then it got worse."
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Murgatroyd314 Mar 19, 2026 +1
It has been said that the most common phrase in Russian history is “And then it got worse.”
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uniquechill Mar 19, 2026 +9
Trump is orange with envy.
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Jeremichi22 Mar 19, 2026 +10
I’m sure we are a few months away from this in the states
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ficis Mar 19, 2026 +3
They call cemeteries psych wards in the USSR
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IvanStarokapustin Mar 19, 2026 +3
Well if you criticize Mr Pu and think you’re safe, you might be crazy.
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Johannes_P Mar 19, 2026 +3
Using mental hospitals to detain political opponents is a method used since Imperial Russia in the 19th century and the USSR; Putin is "merely" reusing the old recipes.
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smurfsundermybed Mar 19, 2026 +3
It's a shame that he committed suicide next week. Truly unforseeable.
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Scrubject_Zero Mar 19, 2026 +5
Is this facility between a high window and the ground?
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turb0_encapsulator Mar 19, 2026 +3
Brendan Carr taking notes.
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ImpulsE69 Mar 20, 2026 +3
This is where the US is headed...sooner rather than later.
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okram2k Mar 19, 2026 +7
tbh you would have to be crazy to criticize putin in russia
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morningsharts Mar 19, 2026 +13
Coming soon to the USA.
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Jae_Rides_Apes Mar 19, 2026 +6
People do not seem to realize we are one domino away from this being the reality in the US.
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thejaysun Mar 19, 2026 +10
If Trump steals/cancels the midterms America won't be far behind this.
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sagsfour20 Mar 19, 2026 +9
Pay attention Americans. This is what is next for you.
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Ok_Mathematician938 Mar 19, 2026 +4
So.. it's clear he's got his lackies here in the states and various other nations.. are they trying to move towards running things the way he does? If so, what do we do about it? What are those Ice Detention centers actually for?
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BrothelWaffles Mar 19, 2026 +4
Are you really just figuring this out now? 1/3 of the country has been saying this was the plan for 10 goddamn years.
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Ok_Mathematician938 Mar 19, 2026
Just trying to raise awareness, 1/3 of the country is not saying this, just our respective bubbles. Your tone comes across as unnecessarily confrontational, perhaps not helping anyone's situation?
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Salmundo Mar 19, 2026 +4
Don’t give Trump any more ideas.
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CarPhoneRonnie Mar 19, 2026 +7
Trump wishes he could do this with Joe Kent
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Th1rte3n1334 Mar 19, 2026 +3
Tbf Kent is crazy.
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All-the-pizza Mar 19, 2026 +2
So, like, is the food free and stuff??🧐
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ImaginationToForm2 Mar 19, 2026 +2
How tall is that building?
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No_Wrongdoer466 Mar 20, 2026 +2
This will be the US soon
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Potential_Day_7087 Mar 19, 2026 +5
Trump would do the same if he could
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vcek Mar 20, 2026 +1
Thats what ICE are doing right now
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BrandenWi Mar 19, 2026 +4
Won't be long before the same starts happening in the US. You publicly support Dear Leader Donald, or you're disappeared.
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ATarrificHeadache Mar 19, 2026 +2
Because you’d have to be crazy to have a problem with anything Putin has done. Americans take heed
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ABearDream Mar 19, 2026 +2
Putin derangement syndrome, SAD!!! I hear it's fatal √s
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yorapissa Mar 19, 2026 +1
Sounds like something a certain American President reading this is so jealous of right now.
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johnnyrollerball69 Mar 19, 2026 +1
On the fifth floor, no doubt.
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gotmewrong66 Mar 19, 2026 +1
Guess it's better than out of a hospital window
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GameTheory27 Mar 19, 2026 +1
i'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than to have a frontal lobotomy
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NPVT Mar 19, 2026 +1
Probably get that Novichok treatment
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Rudokhvist Mar 19, 2026 +1
Not even fell out of the window? Looks like putin is losing his grip...
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npaakp34 Mar 19, 2026 +1
At least they are creative this time.
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PigFarmer1 Mar 21, 2026 +2
Nah, they're just going old school.
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steathrazor Mar 19, 2026 +1
I think they ran out of Windows
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spyinguitarist Mar 19, 2026 +1
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melancholy_dood Mar 19, 2026 +1
This will not end well...
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Shadrach_Jones Mar 20, 2026 +1
And not on the 1st floor
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Hot_Escape_4072 Mar 20, 2026 +1
Do they give free Xanax?
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PigFarmer1 Mar 21, 2026 +1
He's receiving the Polonium treatment, huh?
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O-parker Mar 19, 2026 +1
They locked up the wrong guy . I’d imagine he’ll be falling from a balcony soon.
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Linkage006 Mar 19, 2026
Did he not want children too?
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jcxco Mar 19, 2026 -10
I'm not saying this is justified, but I think we can all agree that most bloggers belong in mental institutions for one reason or another.
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ThoroughSpace Mar 19, 2026 -9
… 🎶AaaFroMan will bring it tooo ya 🎶
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