Self-exiled Bashkir activist and Kremlin critic Ruslan Gabbasov said on March 6 that the trial of his half-brother, Rustam Fararitdinov, on terrorism charges will start on March 12. Fararitdinov, who was arrested in November, rejects the charges. Gabbasov, who currently resides in Lithuania, said earlier that investigators had openly told Fararitdinov that he was under arrest because of him. Gabbasov left Russia after the arrest in 2021 of Lilia Chanysheva, who led opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's headquarters in the Bashkortostan region. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
Kremlin Critic Gabbasov's Half-Brother On Trial For 'Terrorism'
Rustam Fararitdinov (left) and Ruslan Gabbasov (right)