Sochi FSB detains blogger over video claiming teachers poison children on its orders

This piece has two parts: a sourced news report, followed by the Sardaana News editorial position.

What happened

A blogger in Sochi has been detained after posting a video about schoolteachers, the local Narodnaya Gazeta reports. The outlet does not name the blogger.

According to the paper, while walking along Navaginskaya Street the blogger recorded and posted on social media a video the outlet describes as insulting to teachers. In it, the paper says, he claimed teachers were supposedly carrying out an FSB order aimed at poisoning children in the school cafeteria.

Detention and a “talk”

After the video was published, operatives detained the blogger on the spot and took him to the FSB directorate, where he was temporarily held (Narodnaya Gazeta). Then, in what the outlet calls measures aimed at “rehabilitating public opinion,” FSB officers invited him for a talk and showed him the agency’s museum of its history and achievements. Afterwards, according to the paper, the blogger “realized the error of his statements” and recorded a video apology expressing repentance.

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Sardaana News editorial position

The blogger was pointing at the essence: if the FSB orders teachers to, teachers will kill children. The regime’s answer was not an open inquiry into school food safety but detention, a forced tour of the FSB museum and a scripted apology video. This is how dissent and uncomfortable questions about the security services are crushed in Sochi and across Russia.