Alexander Stepanov: “Don’t agree? It’s okay, we’ll cure it...”

“By the way, another fun fact: the same psychiatrist Fyodor Kondratyev has been heading the expert department at the Serbsky Institute for more than 30 years. Such zealous support for Orthodoxy on his part looks especially wild. This Soviet-era institute itself and punitive psychiatry can be considered practically synonymous.

How Kondratiev managed in Soviet times to promote the machinations of the devil as sources of mental disorders is now difficult to say, but one can assume what the enthusiast for updating the law - Senator Panteleev - means when he speaks of a balanced position between the “old repressive approach” and “the current emphatically liberal position." There is someone to represent the old repressive approach - the government has changed, but the “old guard” is still in service.”