Z-blogger detained in St. Petersburg for posts criticizing "DNR" authorities and Kadyrov
In the morning of April 13, security forces detained Z-blogger Alexander Vaskovsky in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the authors of his Telegram channel "From Donetsk, the flame will ignite," as noted by The Moscow Times. A protocol was drawn up against him under the article on "discrediting" the army. The reason for Vaskovsky's prosecution was two posts in his Telegram channel dated January 5, 2024. One of them was dedicated to corruption within the "people's council" of the "DNR." In another, Vaskovsky commented on the news that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, proposed to the US to lift sanctions in exchange for captured Ukrainian soldiers. The blogger stated that such a proposal was a "surrender of national interests," and during the Great Patriotic War, "they would have been shot for such a thing." In 2014, Vaskovsky was appointed co-chairman of the "interim government" of the self-proclaimed "DNR," and then head of the "transport committee" of the "Supreme Council." Shortly before his detention, a post was published on Vaskovsky's channel dedicated to the protests of Chinese workers in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He criticized the Russian authorities and called for "proletarians of all countries to unite." "When the ruling class is in a state of crisis and war, its will becomes even weaker. Even without a crisis, one district policeman can do nothing with those rebelling in his area, the entire district department cannot handle a rebelling district, all the city's security forces cannot overcome a rebelling city, all the country's security forces cannot cope with a rebelling country. The capitalist is also weak before an organized working collective," the channel's publication stated. On April 3, Vaskovsky posted a message in which he stated that the Kremlin had failed the campaign to recruit students into drone forces. In his opinion, it was because of this that the Russian authorities began recruiting state employees and enterprise workers.
