Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, on January 10 added Rustam Fararitdinov, the half-brother of self-exiled Kremlin critic Ruslan Gabbasov, to its list of "terrorists." Fararitdinov was arrested in November on terrorism charges. Gabbasov, who currently resides in Lithuania, said earlier that "Russia's security service had resurrected the ugly system of hostage-taking," adding that investigators openly told Fararitdinov that he was under arrest because of his half-brother. Gabbasov left Russia after the arrest in 2021 of Lilia Chanysheva, the former leader of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's headquarters in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
Russia Adds Half Brother Of Self-Exiled Bashkir Activist To 'Terrorist' List
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