A Russian court recently sentenced a blogger named Stanislav Morozov to two weeks in jail for "hooliganism" after he insulted President Vladimir Putin on a ballot during the recent parliamentary elections. Morozov, from Penza, Russia, posted a video online showing him writing "Putin is a d***head" on an election ballot. He was arrested under "administrative arrest" for the act, which was classified as petty hooliganism. According to the news outlet New Alternative Route, he was approached by a police officer and someone in civilian clothes shortly after posting the video. This arrest comes just months after Morozov shared a video exposing local residents being arrested and allegedly forced to sign contracts with the Russian Defence Ministry. He had also faced two accusations from local authorities earlier this year. One accusation was for insulting Putin and calling him "evil," while the other was related to a video in which he described a local military registration office as a "torture camp." In the same video, Morozov urged locals to "unite" after revealing that employees at the military recruitment office were being beaten repeatedly. The Russian government has a history of targeting individuals it views as threats to President Putin's authority. In 2023, Russia issued an arrest warrant for Karim Khan, the British judge who presided over the International Criminal Court (ICC) case that issued an arrest warrant for Putin on war crimes charges. According to Russian media citing the Interior Ministry’s database, Khan was added to the wanted list by the Russian government. On March 20, Russia also opened cases against Khan and three other ICC judges, just days after the arrest warrant for Putin was issued. The ICC warrant charged Putin and Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman, Maria Lvova-Belova, with war crimes related to the abduction of Ukrainian children. Khan faces multiple felony charges, including prosecuting an innocent person, filing unlawful charges, and organizing an attack on a head of state aimed at destabilizing international relations. Similar allegations have been made against other ICC judges. Russia and Putin deny any war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine, insisting they are victims of Western aggression and misinformation.