Pjotr Sauer

He was put into a psych ward.

He's since come out of the psych ward and he's toned down his criticism.

Tell us about this nickname that has...

started to circulate about Putin.

This nickname has already been around for a while, but it's now sort of growing in popularity, which is Diat of Bunkere, which means the grandfather in a bunker.

And it reflects both, obviously, Putin's time spent in bunkers away from the people, but also the fact that he's old.

You know, Putin is 73, he has ruled this country for 26 years.

And this nickname has specifically grown bigger because of Putin's new initiative to block the internet as much as possible.

Putin himself famously doesn't use the Internet.

He doesn't have social media, unlike Trump or any Western official, really.

He doesn't use a mobile phone.

So he doesn't really understand what the Internet means for millions of Russians.

And a massive part of the recent outrage is the blocking of the Internet, which started at the start of the war but has intensified in recent months.

And what's the sort of official justification for blocking the internet?

So to give you some context, Russia, shortly after the full-scale invasion of 2022, Russia already blocked many of the popular Western apps like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

But Russians could live with it because they used VPNs to circumvent the blocking.

And they used their alternatives like Telegram and VKontakte.

But in recent months, Russia started blocking Telegram, which every Russian I know uses for daily communication.

And more recently, we've seen the government completely blocking the Internet.

So if you're someone in Moscow, you wouldn't be able to order a taxi, order food, pay for services.