FILE PHOTO: Andrei Pivovarov, member of Open Russia opposition group, stands in front of police officers during a demonstration on May Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Igor Russak
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday ruled to keep opposition activist Andrei Pivovarov, who was detained earlier this week, in custody for two months, pending trial, according to a post on his Telegram channel.
Police removed Pivovarov, a former director of Open Russia, a now defunct opposition group linked to exiled former oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from a flight that was about to take off to the Polish capital Warsaw from St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport late on Monday.
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