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Criminal case opened over extremist appeals at nationalists’ rally in Moscow

Krylov was taken to the Zamoskvoretsky police department on Friday for being questioned as a suspect

MOSCOW, November 4 (Itar-Tass) —— A criminal case has been opened over extremist appeals made at a rally of nationalists on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on October 22, the Russian Investigation Committee said on Friday.

Officers of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Main Department for the Suppression of Extremism attributed the pronouncements to a speaker who introduced himself as Konstantin Krylov.

Krylov was taken to the Zamoskvoretsky police department on Friday for being questioned as a suspect. He was charged with the incitement to hatred and released on his own recognizance.