INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A court in Finland has refused to extradite a Russian nationalist fighter to Ukraine and ruled to release him from detention, Finnish
mediareported Friday.Since 2016, Ukrainian authorities have sought the arrest of Yan Petrovsky, a Russian-Norwegian national, on terrorism
charges, accusing him of assisting pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine as a member of the far-right group Rusich in 2014-15.Finnish border
agents detained Petrovsky at Helsinki Airport in July as he bordered a flight to France, charging him with violating immigration
rules.Petrovsky, who is under Western sanctions, wasreportedly able to cross into Finland with his wife and three children after changing
fought on the side of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine since 2014, as well as alongside Russian troops in Moscow's invasion of
Ukraine.Rusich members regularlydisplay far-right symbols and have beenaccused of war crimes in Ukraine.
