MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) – Opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev, accused of inciting mass riots at a protest last year, will remain in pretrial custody until at least February next year, a Moscow court ruled Thursday.
Razvozzhayev, a member of the Left Front political group, has been repeatedly denied requests for release on house arrest or under agreement not to leave town.
He faces about a decade in prison on charges of inciting riots at the May 2012 protest in downtown Moscow, as well as armed resistance against law enforcement officers and illegally crossing the Russian border.
He was detained shortly after a nationally broadcast television show purported that his group took money from a Georgian political figure to stir up riots at the protest, which occurred on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's third inauguration.
More than 400 people were detained at the protest after demonstrators violently broke through a police cordon.
