A court in Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has extended the pretrial detention of blogger Yury Khovansky, who is charged with terrorism over a song he wrote mocking government efforts to resolve the deadly 2002 hostage-taking incident at Moscow’s Dubrovka Theater.
RFE/RL: Russian blogger’s pretrial detention extended
A security officer walks in Zaryadye park in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower and St Basil's cathedral during the sunset in downtown Moscow on July 29, 2021.