On the evening of March 17, Ilya Remeslo, a 42-year-old Russian lawyer in St. Petersburg, published a manifesto to his 90,000 Telegram followers titled “Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin.” The Russian president, he wrote, had waged a “dead-end war” against Ukraine that has already cost up to 2 million casualties (a figure exceeding even the highest independent assessments), destroyed the economy, and crushed all domestic opposition. Now, Remeslo wrote, the Kremlin’s