Russian authorities arrested a nationalist pro-war blogger this week and charged him with extremism just a few days after he called Vladimir Putin a “cowardly bum.”

Igor Girkin, 52, was arrested by Federal Security Service (FSB) agents at his home in Moscow on Friday morning, his wife, Miroslava Reginskaya wrote on Telegram.

“From friends, I managed to find out that my husband was charged under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extremism),” she said.

[Girkin has been playing with fire for a while in his criticisms of the war effort, apparently. Worth noting, too: the Netherlands convicted Girkin in absentia for the mass murder of 298 people in the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines MH17. None of that caused Girkin any problems with the Russian regime, but calling Putin a “lowlife” and a “cowardly bum” was a bridge too far. — Ed]