Ukrainian lawmaker detained during march of mourning over Boris Nemtsov in Moscow

Alexei Goncharenko, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada /parliament/, has been detained during a march of mourning in memory of Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in central Moscow overnight to Saturday, a police source said on Sunday.

The Moscow police department confirmed these reports, adding Goncharenko would be referred to Russia’s Investigations Committee.

In the meantime, the Antimaidan movement said in a statement that Goncharnko had taken part in the massacre of the movement’s activists in Odessa on May 2, 2014.

“There is no doubt he commended what was going on and instigated the massacre. He told about his involvement in the Odessa massacre in an interview with the Ukraina television channel,” Antimaidan said in a statement posted on its website. The movement also referred to Goncharenko’s “photos on the backdrop of dead bodies” he had posted in social networks after the fire at Odessa’s House of Trade Unions. “When it became obvious that the Odessa massacre was condemned in Odessa and in the world, he removed these pictures and made a statement trying to whitewash himself,” Antimaidan said.

“We demand this man be arrested… He must be arrested and brought to justice,” the statement underscored.

The Antimaidan movement was set up in January 2015. Its goal, according to activists, is to prevent ‘colour revolutions’ in Russia.