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Novaya Gazeta journalist Alexander Litoy was removed from the Moscow-Sevastopol train in Tula when he was returning from vacation. Previously, Khimki police officers came to his apartment in Troitsk near Moscow. Litoy was detained in connection with the investigation of the riots in Khimki, despite the fact that he was not present at the anti-fascist rally. Litoy told Ekho Moskvy that he doesn’t even know whether he is being tested as a witness (now we are also detaining witnesses, at least in this case - last week, the leader of the Movement in Defense of the Khimki Forest, Evgenia Chirikova, was rudely detained I wasn’t at the action either). The journalist suggests that he was detained because he repeatedly wrote about various youth movements.

It turned out that the police considered Litogo the leader of the anti-fascists. The fact is that back in the spring, an immediate response team led by a man in civilian clothes from the Center for Combating Extremism came to the journalist’s home, who accused him of participating in anti-fascist activities. Then Litom managed to get rid of it, explaining that he was a journalist and only wrote about anti-fascists, but, apparently, he was not kicked out of the database, so he remained listed there. The Khimki police, as Litoy told Kasparov.Ru, at first spoke to him rudely and threatened to detain him, but then he finally explained that he was not even present when the stones were thrown at the Khimki administration building.

Meanwhile, defenders of the Khimki Forest sent an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev with a demand to influence the construction project of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway and to allow the highway to bypass the forested area. Chirikova does not rule out that a similar appeal will be sent to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, with whom forest defenders unsuccessfully sued.