[Editor’s note: yesterday we posted part 1 of Grigory Pasko’s interview with Dr. Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia, and an adviser to the Russian human rights ombudsman. Below the interview picks up right where Grigory left off … Pasko has reported on punitive psychiatry in Russia extensively for this blog.] An interview with prominent Russian psychiatrist Yuri Savenko – Part 2 By Grigory Pasko Q by Pasko: Recently, I met with yet another “dissenter” – a journalist from Rybinsk, Andrei Novikov. A from Dr. Savenko: A talented journalist in his 40 years has remained flamboyantly adolescent to such a degree that he is a group 2 invalid by mental illness, but he has never represented any kind of menace to society. The texts that served as grounds for opening a criminal case against him under part 1 of Article 280 of the CC RF [Criminal Code of the Russian Federation] were never published anywhere, did not hang on his website, but were taken from a private computer, that is there was no element of a crime, but turning to psychiatry allowed more than 9 months to treat him in an inpatient facility, although he was not refusing outpatient treatment. This is very cruel.