Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service added sociologist and political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky to the register of extremists and terrorists on August 7. Kagarlitsky has been in the pretrial detention center of the northwestern Russian city of Syktyvkar since the end of July on a charge of justifying terrorism. Kagarlitsky told RFE/RL that he considered the charge against him politically motivated. Kagarlitsky, 64, is also a well-known leftist publicist and a former Soviet dissident. Last year, he was added by the Justice Ministry to the list of so-called foreign agents. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
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