Following Entry Posted 2/06/2008 07:32:00 AM

Russian Political Activist Locked in Mental Hospital

(Moscow, Russia) Someone please tell me how this action differs from the political tactics of Josef Stalin.

Moscow Times:

An opposition activist has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital in the Tver region, two colleagues and a hospital official said Monday.

Roman Nikolaichik, 27, a lawyer and member of Garry Kasparov's Other Russia coalition, was detained in Tver on Friday, questioned about his political activities and subsequently taken to a psychiatric hospital, where he remained Monday, said Maxim Novikov, head of the coalition's branch in Tver.

The account was confirmed by Yevgeny Svetovidov, a spokesman for a monarchist movement, ARES, of which Nikolaichik is a member.

A woman who answered the telephone at Litvinov Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 in the Tver region town of Busharevo said Nikolaichik was being held in an isolation ward.

Presumably, after a few months of psychiatric treatment in a Russian mental hospital, Mr. Nikolaichik will be cured of all unhealthy political ideas.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.
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