Alexander Gorbunov, alias StalinGulag, has notched up 300,000 followers on the Telegram messaging app.

He has over a million more on Twitter, his witty and acerbic posts deploring the current state of affairs in Russia.

Now he has decided to speak out to prevent reprisals against his family, he has told BBC Russian.

Police visited his elderly mother's flat earlier this week.

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