A court in the northwestern Russian city of Syktyvkar has sent political analyst Boris Kagarlitsky to pretrial detention for at least two months on a charge of making online calls for terrorism. The charge stems from Kagarlitsky's online comments in October 2022 on reports about an attack on the Kerch bridge built by Moscow after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea in 2014. Kagarlitsky told RFE/RL before the hearing that he considered the charge against him politically motivated. In recent months, scores of Russian citizens have been charged with extremism and terrorism for publicly expressing their opinions about Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To read the original story by RFE/RL's North.Realities, click here.
Russian Political Analyst Charged With Online Calls For Terrorism
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