Ivan Ponomarev, the head of the region's assembly and an enemy of Mr Kuchma's, mysteriously resigned in May.

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The detainee is an aide to Russian opposition MP Ilya Ponomarev and an ally of leftist opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Konstantin Lebedev.

BBC: US concern over Russian activist's detention in Kiev

Now her father's name, TT Ponomarev, has been inscribed long with 17, 000 other new names on a section of the memorial that has been added for the 70th anniversary.

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Two other activists - Konstantin Lebedev, an aide to Mr Udaltsov, and Leonid Razvozzhayev, an aide to opposition MP Ilya Ponomarev - were charged alongside Mr Udaltsov in October but were remanded in custody.

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For example, Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian Duma, argues that social media make it easier for protesters in Russia to organise. (Russians spend more time on the internet than western Europeans, not least because they have no faith in state television.) This is true, but the secret police in many countries are equally excited about technology.

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