Russia: Author of Wildfires Internet Meme is Prosecuted by Police · Global Voices
Gregory Asmolov

A blogget top-lap, an author of a famous blog post [ENG] demanding “rynda” from Vladimir Putin and criticizing the state's response to Russian wildfires closed his blog [ENG] and disappeared. In the last posts, he wrote [RUS] that Russian police conducted a search at his home, took his computer and also questioned his mother. According to Russian media [RUS], the prosecution was motivated by a post where the blogger called to hang prime minister Putin and his family.