Russian police are arresting or interrogating a growing number of environmentalists in a security crackdown that gained momentum after a terrorist scare last month.
Activists say police have interrogated at least seven environmentalists in the past two months.
At least one of them is still in jail. The environmentalists are being questioned about their sources of funding and their links to Western groups, they say. They believe the arrests are part of Russia's increasing anti-Western hostility and paranoia about espionage, especially among the KGB's successor agencies in the Russian security services. There are fears of more arrests in the future. We're still waiting to see who will be next.