A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region, on January 15 extended the pretrial detention of Rustam Fararitdinov, the half-brother of self-exiled Kremlin critic Ruslan Gabbasov, until at least March 22. Fararitdinov was arrested in November on terrorism charges that he and his relatives reject. Gabbasov, who currently resides in Lithuania, said earlier that investigators had openly told Fararitdinov that he was under arrest because of his half-brother. Gabbasov left Russia after the arrest of the former leader of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's headquarters in Bashkortostan, Lilia Chanysheva, in 2021. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
Detention Of Self-Exiled Bashkir Activist's Half-Brother Extended
Rustam Fararitdinov (left) is the half-brother of Kremlin critic Ruslan Gabbasov (right, file photo).