A court in Russia’s Siberian region of Yakutia has confined to forced psychiatric treatment a shaman who was stopped by authorities several times in his attempts to march to Moscow by foot “to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.”
RFE/RL: Anti-Putin shaman ordered to undergo forced ‘treatment’ in psychiatric clinic
A picture taken on August 20, 2010 shows a shaman of Tyva Republic performing during a shamanistic ritual ceremony at sacred site outside Kyzyl.
