TASS informs about this with reference to the joint press service of the city's courts.

“The Kuibyshevsky District Court of the City of St. Petersburg issued an order to extend the preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to Yuri Khovansky, accused of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art.

205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("Justification of Terrorism"), for a period of October 8, "- said in the message.

On June 10, the Dzerzhinsky District Court decided to arrest Khovansky.

It was also reported that Rosfinmonitoring included the arrested blogger Yuri Khovansky in the list of individuals in relation to whom there is information about their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism.