A Russian opposition activist was charged on Tuesday with planning mass disorder as the UN agency on refugees demanded an explanation for his disappearance from the Ukrainian capital Kiev
, RIA Novosti reports.
A spokesperson for Russia’s Investigation Committee said on Monday that Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhayev had handed himself in to its Moscow office and confessed to organizing mass riots across the country.
Razvozzhayev, who strenuously denied the charges against him in a blog post last week, had vanished from Kiev on Friday after seeking political refugee status at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kiev, his lawyer, Violetta Volkova, said.
The UN agency on Monday said it was “deeply concerned” about Razvozzhayev’s disappearance.
