Brussels should urge EU countries to suspend any extraditions of Russians back home.
That’s the view of Bulgarian MEP Radan Kanev.
Kanev, from the European People’s Party (EPP) group, is intervening to try and prevent the extradition of Russian national Alexey Alchin from Bulgaria.
Alchin burned his passport in Varna, a port city in northeastern Bulgaria he’s been residing in for the past eight years, in late February to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Now Moscow wants to extradite Alchin on a tax evasion charge, which Alchin and his supporters claim is politically motivated.
