Free Russia Forum participant and publicist Aleksandr Skobov was detained in the evening of April 2 in St. Petersburg on charges of promoting terrorist activity, opposition activists Vladimir Volokhonskii and Aleksei Lushnikov reported.
Skobov is charged with Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Facilitating terrorist activity. In March, Skobov was included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of so-called foreign agents.
