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18-year-old pro-Ukrainian activist committed suicide in Russia

18-year-old pro-Ukrainian activist committed suicide in Russia
Vlad Kolesnikov, 18-year-old pro-Ukrainian activist from Russian city of Zhigulevsk, Russia, committed suicide

Vlad Kolesnikov repeatedly publicly demonstrated his support to Ukraine, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Radio Svoboda.

Vlad’s name became known in June 2015, when he came to class wearing a T-shirt with Ukrainian flag and the words “Return Crimea!” on it. He also hung out an anti-war slogan in Podolsk town, where he studied.

After this incident, Vlad was expelled from college, he became a person of interest to Russian federal security service.

Russian and international media wrote about Vlad Kolesnikov. He had a popular blog and participated in several opposition groups in Facebook. In Zhigulevsk Vlad had no support from relatives and complained about bullying of classmates.

“Relations with people just awful – they promised to beat, threw dirt and snowballs at me; insults and pushing elbows in the hallways. I can not contact the police (in the summer they made it clear that they would not help me and, I quote, “I would have punched you in the face”). I am desperately looking for a place to flee,”- he wrote in November.

On December 23 Vlad Kolesnikov took a lethal dose of drugs. The police told to the correspondent of Radio Svoboda that they could not save the boy.

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