Putin’s Toughest Online Critic Brings His Name, and Wheelchair, Into the Light
Aleksandr Gorbunov, who built an online following as “StalinGulag,†is one of the Kremlin’s most vocal opponents.CreditCreditAlexander Nemenov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Andrew Higgins
May 17, 2019
MOSCOW — He can’t walk and can barely move his hands, but thanks to his sharp mind, a working finger and a red iPhone attached to his wheelchair, Aleksandr Gorbunov now ranks as one of the Kremlin’s most potent foes.
Mixing dark humor with sardonic analysis of Russia’s direction under President Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Gorbunov, 27, has become a social media sensation, outpacing Kremlin propagandists in the race for attention on Twitter, Instagram and Telegram, a secure messaging service developed by Russians that Moscow tried in vain last year to shut down.
He has 1.1 million followers on Twitter — twice as many as Margarita Simonyan, the head of Kremlin-funded RT television. Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner, has described him as the country’s “most important political commentator.†That, Mr. Navalny said, is a “funny and cool fact.â€
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/europe/stalingulag-putin-russia.html
Stalingulag: The disabled man who defied expectations to write Russia's most-read political blog
By Alexander Roslyakov, Naira Davlashyan • last updated: 13/05/2019
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While Alexander Gorbunov strolls around Moscow’s Gorky Park in his wheelchair, strangers approach him.
"Thank you!" shouts a passing by cyclist filming him on his phone.
Gorbunov is the author of the once-anonymous Stalingulag. With more than a million followers on Twitter and over 370,000 on the Telegram messaging app, it’s one of Russia’s most-read political blogs.
Read more at: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/13/stalingulag-the-disabled-man-who-defied-expectations-to-write-russia-s-most-read-political
Secretive 'hero' blogger rips into Kremlin, one click at a time
[Agence-France Presse]
by Anna SMOLCHENKO
4 May 2019
Alexander Gorbunov, the man behind the StalinGulag blog, has emerged as one of President Vladimir Putin's sharpest critics
He is wheelchair-bound and has limited use of his hands but Alexander Gorbunov, the author of hugely popular social media accounts in Russia, has emerged as one of President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics.
Diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and using his right index finger to type, the 27-year-old author of StalinGulag skewers the "hypocrisy" of Putin's system and the everyday injustices ordinary Russians face.
Known for his dry wit and generous use of profanities, StalinGulag has built a near 1.5 million strong army of followers on Twitter and Telegram, with a total media outreach believed to include several million more.
Read more at: https://au.news.yahoo.com/secretive-hero-blogger-rips-kremlin-one-click-time-123755869--spt.html
This must be his twitter, it's all in that Cyrillic alphabet from what I can tell:
https://twitter.com/StalinGulagBut he has become a big sensation nowadays, someone to know of..... talk of the town or at least, talk of twitter and is the big government going to get on his case? Anyway, reading for this weekend. Yes, the fellow has a very rough disease that may place some limits on his mobility at least.
