A 75-year-old activist was detained in St. Petersburg after a funeral rally.

In St. Petersburg, at the end of the rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov on the Field of Mars, 75-year-old activist Igor Andreev, known as Stepanych, was detained. According to Fontanka. Ru”, he was walking with a group of 8-10 people towards the Kazan Cathedral and was detained after he refused to fold the banner at the request of the police.

Earlier it was reported about the detention of one of the organizers of the procession and rally, Vsevolod Nelayev, due to the fact that the police did not like the abundance of Ukrainian flags among the participants of the event. Later it became known that Nelaev was released. Together with Nelayev, his colleague was detained, there is no information about his fate yet.