Remeslo Ilya Professional field/official position
Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, blogger
Remeslo Ilya biography
REMESLO Ilya Borisovich (b. 1983 in Nalchik) graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 2005.
- He worked in legal consulting in Moscow and St. Petersburg, though there is no enough data on his activities until 2014.
- In 2014, he founded the Association of Lawyers of St. Petersburg and was delegated to the Public Chamber from it. He is a Member of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) and laureate of its Truth and Justice Prize in 2016 and 2017 for his reports on corruption, he is also a member of the Public Chamber Commission on the development of the information community, media, and mass communications.
- In 2016, the Public Chamber nominated him for the award “I am a citizen!”
Remeslo Ilya crimes
Since he turned from a petty lawyer in St. Petersburg into a member of the Public Chamber and the All-Russian Popular Front, the main craft of Ilya Remeslo (Remeslo is a craft in Russian) has been writing “revealing” articles about the Russian opposition on the pro-government websites of RIA-Novosti (Russia Today) and Ruposters, as well as writing denunciations to the Prosecutor General, the police, Roskomnadzor (internet regulator), and other investigative and punitive bodies of the Russian Federation. The main object of his attacks is the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund, Alexei Navalny.
Remeslo Ilya, Links and materials
How a Trade Union Became a “Foreign Agent
Kremlin propagandists accused “Ukrainian trolls” of criticizing pension reform
Roskomnadzor explained to Navalny why he blocked his website