NEW YORK: The European Union on Tuesday called on Russia to Instantly Launch the activist Andrei Pivovarov, a day Later he Had Been hauled out of a Airplane at St.
Petersburg and Forced into custody as part of a Wider crackdown on critics of the Kremlin.

“This situation isn’t an isolated event but affirms a constant pattern of decreasing area for civil society, both the resistance and critical voices in addition to independent press in the Russian Federation,” a spokesman for the EU’s executive Commission said in a statement.
He explained Pivovarov was arrested for alleged violations of this legislation on”undesirable organisations”, and urged the Russian government to reform the laws.
Police eliminated Pivovarov, manager of Open Russia, a now defunct resistance group connected to exiled former oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, by a trip that was going to shoot off to Warsaw out of St.
Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport late on Monday.