This news is not only about the death of a person. It is about how inhuman the so-called judicial and law-enforcement system of Russia has become. A seriously ill, innocent man asked for medical assistance throughout 20 court hearings — and only one medical worker remembered the Hippocratic Oath. But the FSIN system does not save people — it finishes them off: only the physically strong can survive in it. Vladimir Osipov was not one of them. He was killed for the truth he wrote on the internet, and he was not even allowed a final statement. That is all one needs to know about both the system and the doctors who serve it.

The farewell ceremony for Vladimir Osipov will take place in Kerch on Wednesday, March 25: at 10:30 a.m., a funeral service will be held at St. John the Baptist Cathedral, and at 12:00 p.m., the burial will take place at Opasnensky Cemetery.

Osipov died in a hospital in Ukhta after being transferred there from the SIZO detention center in Sosnogorsk in a coma on March 16. Neither his family nor his lawyer were informed. Instead of receiving necessary treatment, he was transferred from a detention center near Moscow to Komi before his sentence had even entered into legal force. The official cause of death was listed as a stroke.

Vladimir had repeatedly reported his health problems, including severe hypertension, both in the Lyubertsy City Court and later in the Moscow Regional Court. But he was systematically denied treatment. Only once, in all twenty hearings, did a paramedic acknowledge the obvious: a blood pressure of 220–240 over 180 required urgent hospitalization. Osipov was then taken under guard to a hospital, examined, and given IV treatment — but was later forcibly returned to detention. Afterwards, a false entry appeared in his medical file claiming that he had left the hospital voluntarily and accompanied by relatives.

In November 2025, Vladimir Osipov was sentenced to six and a half years in a general-regime penal colony under the charge of “fake news about the army.” During the trial, he was removed from the courtroom twice and ultimately deprived of his final statement: the court treated his complaints about his health as a refusal to speak. His appeal hearing was scheduled in the Moscow Regional Court for March 19, but on March 18, when his lawyer arrived in Ukhta for the hearing, it became known that Vladimir Osipov was dead.