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Hardline Russian nationalist Igor Girkin was detained and charged with extremism on Friday morning, indicating that President Putin has finally lost patience with his vociferous criticism of Russia’s faltering approach to the war in Ukraine.
In a post on his Telegram account, Girkin’s wife said representatives of Russia’s Investigative Committee came to their home at around 11:30 a.m. “I was not at home at that time. Soon, according to the concierge, they took my husband under the arms and took him away in an unknown direction,” Miroslava Reginskaya wrote.
She added that she’d learned from friends that he “was charged under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extremism).”