INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
political organizations, independent mediareported Thursday.Programmer Konstantin Kotov was arrested during the 2019 Moscow election
His original four-year sentence was reduced after President Vladimir Putin instructed prosecutors to review his sentence.Rights groupssaid
group carries a punishment of up to eight years in prison.According to independent news outlet Mediazona, a Moscow court ruled behind closed
doors Thursday to place Kotov under house arrest until Oct
said the court issued the same ruling for another activist, Viktor Levakov, who was accused of making three donations totaling 3,500 rubles
($37.87).Levakov, whose home was also searched Wednesday, was identified as a volunteer security guard at a makeshift memorial to the
murdered opposition figure Boris Nemtsov.
