Russian activist charged with treason after phoning Ukrainian embassy
Source: Reuters / Yahoo
VYAZMA, Russia (Reuters) - Nine months after Russian activist Svetlana Davydova called the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to warn that Russian soldiers were making their way to Ukraine, an investigator with an order for her arrest showed up at her door. Her husband, Anatoly Gorlov, said the investigator from the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet KGB, detained Davydova, a mother of seven living in the western Russian city of Vyazma, on suspicion of treason.
"They... didn't ask for permission, they just threw themselves on me and rushed into the apartment yelling 'Quiet!'," Gorlov told Reuters in his small apartment. "A man in civilian clothes identified himself as an investigator from the FSB. They asked Sveta 'Are you Davydova? We are taking you right now!'," he said.
Ukraine and Western governments accuse Moscow of sending weapons and troops to support a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Russia denies this. More than 5,000 people have been killed since last April in the conflict, which has worsened sharply this month.
Russian activists, and relatives of soldiers sent to the front lines in Ukraine, are often hesitant to speak out. Soldiers' rights campaigner Ella Polyakova was declared a 'foreign agent' after she gave an interview to Reuters last year about the deaths of Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine.
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More of that wonderful freedom that Putin is trying to bring to Ukraine
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