Opposition activist Igor Nelogov has been arrested in Yekaterinburg.

As the publication Mediazona clarifies, the court has already posted 41-year-old Igor Nelogov He's in pretrial detention. He's accused of "financing terrorism." It's unclear which organization he's allegedly supporting.

Earlier this week, the activist was added to the Rosfinmonitoring registry of "terrorists and extremists."

Before the war with Ukraine, Nelogov was a member of the socio-political association "Yekaterinburg - For Freedom": every month it held pickets of up to 50 people in defense of Russian political prisoners.

In 2017, Nelogova detained After a protest held by supporters of the Artpodgotovka movement, the report stated that he "spoke about engaging society in dissent against the policies and the presidents of the Russian Federation."

In May 2018, Nelogov turned The only person detained at the "He's Not Your Tsar" protest march in Yekaterinburg (approximately five thousand people participated). According to the police report, the activist demanded that police open the exit from a pedestrian tunnel, which was blocked by metal barriers. After they refused, he got into a scuffle with them and unblocked the exit himself, allowing the march to continue. For this, the court fined him 600 rubles.

Photo: Kommersant/Vladislav Lonshakov, May 2018