Our latest update on the Bogatenkova arrest, including information from our Russian Service and Sergei Krivenko's suggestion to radio station Govorit Moskva that the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights would look into her case:
Russian 'Soldiers' Mothers' Activist Arrested
ICYMI yesterday:
Dpa's Nikolaus von Twickel comes through with another Russian source on the Bogatenkova detention, activist group Citizens In The Army:
"Certain progress" made, Poroshenko said afterward:
Russia's Justice Ministry in August blacklisted as a "foreign agent" the St. Petersburg branch of the Soldiers' Mothers network, with which Lyudmila Bogatenkova is associated. That listing came one day after activists there in Russia's second city cited a list of more than 100 Russian troops who had been killed in eastern Ukraine.
Here's THAT STORY.