INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The chief editor of the Yekaterinburg-based newspaper Vechernye Vedemosti fled from police custody before he was scheduled to appear in
court for allegedly displaying extremist symbols in public, Kommersant reported Friday, citing an unnamed source.Earlier on Friday, the
exiled news outlet Mediazona reported that editor Vladislav Postnikov, who was expected to be released from administrative detention in the
city of Nizhny Tagil, was taken away in a police vehicle and brought to an Interior Ministry building in Yekaterinburg.As a
An unnamed source told Kommersant that the journalist allegedly fled from police, who were preparing to press new charges against him, after
opposition activist Alexei Navalny.The newspaper editor was detained again on March 14 for posts showing symbols of the banned Other Russia
party, which split from the National Bolshevik Party.Vechernye Vedemosti journalists suspect that the police are targeting Postnikov in
