REMESLO on Sobchak. I Watched THIS So You Don’t Have To

NARRATOR:

So, everyone had that friend in childhood, right, some bullshitter who kept saying his uncle from America was about to bring him the new GTA 12.

Today we’ve got exactly that kind of storyteller in the sandbox.

REMESLO:

Already within this very year we will have very global changes. It will be something like a palace coup.

REMESLO:

He is dead. Right now he is in the cold-storage chamber of his residence in Valdai.

NARRATOR:

Serial snitch Remeslo came to Sobchak and told her how he worked with the presidential administration, was buddies with the security services, and knows for absolutely sure: nobody loves Pypa anywhere.

REMESLO:

They all actually secretly hate Putin.

NARRATOR:

Please hand over your likes at the entrance. Ahead, there are lots of insights from under the Kremlin carpet. And of course, at the end we’ll read the comments and look at the reaction online.

I certainly didn’t think the revolution would begin with Bonya and Remeslo.

Let me very briefly explain who Remeslo is. Well, in case you haven’t watched my video about Russian informers. I went through his biography in detail there. Watch it if you haven’t yet.

So, Remeslo is this kind of professional stool pigeon who complained and filed requests for inspections against a huge number of people and media outlets.

But first and foremost he is known for fighting Navalny. That is, in fact, how he built his career.

But did something happen? A spring flare-up or some kind of tower war? And Remeslo burst out with a giant critical post. No, not criticizing Roskomnadzor or the authorities, or, I don’t know, Novosibirsk, but criticizing Pypa personally.

And that, as you know, is a one-way road. But Remeslo somehow hasn’t had to start walking down that road yet. They just took him to a mental hospital.

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What mental hospital? Are you fucking kidding or what?

NARRATOR:

Ilya spent about a month there and then just walked out. And he didn’t even go quiet, he started giving interviews.

REMESLO:

Nobody treated me by force, nobody stripped me of legal capacity. That diagnosis they gave me, I’m not going to name it due to restrictions for family reasons and so on, but it’s a mild one.

NARRATOR:

Which means everything we’re about to hear next is a perfectly sane picture of the world. Probably.

Let’s warm up and find out how Ilya ended up in the hospital. Both medics and cops came to take him away.

REMESLO:

They came in and said outright, in plain language, that your texts are, accordingly, stirring up society. There is outrage in society. By the way, they mentioned your surname, Ksenia. For some reason I don’t know, apparently they read you.

That is, people did not ask how I was feeling, what my state of mind was, and so on. They were interested exclusively in my texts about Vladimir Putin.

NARRATOR:

Next Ilya will rather vaguely try to explain why the medics came for him at all. It will take Sobchak a few minutes to understand.

REMESLO:

Some relative, in some private conversation, was simply discussing the situation with some other doctor: listen, maybe one of the ways would be for him to stay for a while in some psychiatric ward. But it was all very speculative hand-waving.

SOBCHAK:

Really?

REMESLO:

Yes, exactly.

SOBCHAK:

And then some time after that an ambulance showed up?

REMESLO:

Yes.

SOBCHAK:

So without being called?

REMESLO:

Yes. Well, it was not punitive psychiatry, because nobody was treating me there by force. That is, I was taking some mild sedative pills there, the kind taken for sleep disorders. So nothing absolute like that.

SOBCHAK:

And what medicines were those?

REMESLO:

Well, it was quetiapine and lithium.

NARRATOR:

Well, lithium is pretty serious stuff.

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How was I treated? Oh, nothing, just ascorbic acid and a colonoscopy every two hours. That’s how it was.

NARRATOR:

Sorry, got carried away.

Anyway, lithium is one of the strongest mood stabilizers used for bipolar disorder and severe depression. It can prevent both manic and depressive episodes and even reduces the risk of suicide.

Well, in theory, it reduces the risk of suicide.

At the same time, its effect is so powerful that it requires constant monitoring of blood levels. This is not a light remedy, but a serious drug with a strong effect on the brain.

Can you smell ChatGPT too?

In the end, we will still get Ilya’s final answer. The psych ward was payback for being too free-spirited.

REMESLO:

I understood that I had done something that, among most people, could be perceived as: have you completely lost your mind, harshly criticizing the president. In our country, unfortunately, that is how it is. But for me it is different. For me it is the exercise of my constitutional freedoms, civil freedoms.

NARRATOR:

Next Sobchak will move on to that very post by Remeslo in which he tears Pypa apart, to the article that begins with the phrase “five reasons.”

REMESLO:

We must, in my opinion, fight Putinism as a phenomenon.

NARRATOR:

That’s my boy.

So, if you thought that after the psych hospital Ilya would switch shoes or back off the macho act, then no.

REMESLO:

We must, in my opinion, fight Putinism as a phenomenon, and not just Vladimir Putin alone as a person. Because what he has, what he says, what he does, none of that has much significance if the regime remains the same, the regime of Putinism.

NARRATOR:

And quite the word choice from a man who only yesterday was declaring: Trump himself is learning negotiation from Putin.

REMESLO / QUOTE:

Vladimir Putin has already gone down in history as the man who had the greatest influence on the history of Russia in the 21st century. And it is unlikely that anyone will take that status away from him now.

SOBCHAK:

What prompted you, a pro-government blogger who for years wrote, excuse me, I’ll say this word, denunciations against the Russian opposition?

NARRATOR:

Oh, God. Even apologizing for that word.

The man’s profession was writing denunciations and helping the security services. There’s just no fucking way to classify it any other way.

Although Ilya manages to do exactly that.

REMESLO:

About denunciations. May I insert a small remark? I was not the only one writing these statements. Recently you yourself, Ksenia Anatolyevna, wrote a statement against Solovyov, right? For holding him accountable for an insult. But not every statement is a denunciation.

And where is the difference? Like, a statement, a denunciation. You also didn’t write it in your own interests, you wrote it in someone else’s. And I also wrote a statement, accordingly, in someone else’s interests.

NARRATOR:

That really is the question, isn’t it, where’s the difference? I file a statement against Solovyov, or Mikhalkov whispers in Bastrykin’s ear at the bathhouse so he checks out some artist he doesn’t like.

Anyway, it’s the standard move: wriggle your ass a bit, generalize, slip away into sophistry. And now the professional snitch, in his own descriptive system, is no different from a neurologist. Well, because both snitch.

Sobchak will return again to Remeslo’s statements, and we will learn that these grievances had been building up for a long time, but he blew up almost in sync with Bonya.

REMESLO:

You know, the trigger was when people started being herded into the Max messenger, started blocking Telegram, and people were forcibly deprived of access to medical services. That is, this thing appeared in Gosuslugi: if you do not register in the Max messenger, you are blocked for 72 hours.

NARRATOR:

I definitely do not want to defend any Max.

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Well then, friends, now I also have my own channel on Max.

NARRATOR:

The option to refuse was there in small print in Gosuslugi.

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Am I in the Upside Down?

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No, you’re in the sovereign internet.

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REMESLO:

Well, as you can see, I’m not trying very hard to sink the AP, right?

SOBCHAK:

I mean, it seems to me you are trying pretty hard. I don’t know.

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NARRATOR:

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So, Sobchak will finally be unable to hold back and will utter that sacred phrase: “Kremlin towers.”

And once again this theory of towers malfunctioned, because no Kremlin tower would approve pouncing on the supreme shit commander.

SOBCHAK:

But you are not doing that. You immediately, so to speak, cross red lines for all towers, because you begin criticizing Vladimir Putin personally. Why is that?

REMESLO:

The main cause of all the problems that exist in our country right now is not Kiriyenko, not the Max messenger, not the AP, but the person who is at the very top, who governs all of this. That is Vladimir Putin. It’s obvious. Everyone knows it.

War correspondents know it, opinion leaders know it. You know it, too. But practically everyone is afraid to say that it is precisely this person who is guilty, and that it is under him that our country is sinking into this impossible bottom.

NARRATOR:

The idea that Pypa was no longer all there entered Ilya’s head after Prigozhin’s mutiny.

REMESLO:

In my view, he should have gathered some number of people there, armed people, and gone out to meet him. Instead, our president flew to one of his residences and sent Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko to negotiate, and he handled it brilliantly.

SOBCHAK:

On the one hand, that is your view, but maybe there is another view of it: it is not the tsar’s business to negotiate with a mutineer, because as soon as you engage in personal contact, Prigozhin can then say: “Putin personally called me just now.”

NARRATOR:

I think none of us expected Vladimir Vladimirovich personally to show up for the meetup, because that would become proof that force works in communication with Putin.

And I remind you, the supreme grandpa managed to say Navalny’s surname only after his death.

But if you became disappointed in Pypa back in 2023, then why were you stroking him nonstop in 2025? What’s more, Ilya was posting praise about the president literally a couple of days before his remeslo-march of justice on Telegram.

Ilya, what magnesium are you not taking that such transformations are happening to you? Sobchak will sort of ask.

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Calm down, liberals. That was meta-irony.

REMESLO:

It’s meta-irony. And I have masses of other posts like that, when, say, I write about how he saved someone. By then everyone already knew how I felt about Putin.

NARRATOR:

In short, that very meme happened.

Continuing to push his line, Remeslo will tell us that his Telegram channel with 117,000 subscribers is actually intended for, like, 17 people.

REMESLO:

Listen, I don’t write for ordinary people. This is my personal blog, you understand? I write there whatever I want. I wanted to write that. It’s for people who know me, who understand, so that I can send it and show it. I wanted to write that. I am not obliged to justify myself to anyone, you understand?

NARRATOR:

Quickly, friends, induct Ilya Remeslo into “Antihype.”

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Millions of flies can’t be wrong, you know that.

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Well, fuck them, those dumbfucks.

NARRATOR:

Next Sobchak will try to understand how Remeslo reconciles yet another contradiction. He is supposedly in favor of freedom of the press.

SOBCHAK:

Do I understand correctly that you consider it important for there to be freedom of the press in our country?

REMESLO:

Yes.

NARRATOR:

On the other hand, this same man wrote many and frequent denunciations against journalists and even declared a campaign against, quote, “libtard media.”

Here we learn that, it turns out, Ilya divides media into three types: systemic, libtard, and with