 Under Putin (2000 to present), it has made controversial diagnoses for individuals engaged in political dissent and protest.From 1994 onwards, the use of psychiatry was expanded to control religious dissenters and others and a special group for “study of the negative influence of religious groups” was created at the Serbsky Center, led by Professor Fyodor Kondratyev.Kondratyev’s group started supervising trials all over the country.