Activist who ran project commemorating political repression victims disappears in Russia after being detained
Andrey Shalaev, the founder of the Russian Bessmertnyi Barak (Immortal Barracks) project on victims of political repression, disappeared after he was detained in Tver on 19 October. Source: Meduza, the Russian Latvia-based media outlet, citing the Bessmertnyiy Barak project and OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights media project Details: Shalaev told OVD-Info that he was detained at a train station in Tver while waiting for a train in a café on 19 October.