Russian magazine editor faces 15 days in jail

The editor-in-chief of Russia's top opposition magazine, The New Times, has been accused of disobeying traffic police and faces up to 15 days in jail amid ever-shrinking tolerance for dissent. Writing on Twitter, Yevgenia Albats said a court would hear her case on Tuesday.
"Over what?" she said in a tweet late Saturday. "Over nothing." Reached by AFP on Sunday, Albats declined to comment. She said earlier that traffic police had stopped her car on a busy Moscow street on Saturday and requested to see her identification. She said she had complied but had nevertheless been accused of disobeying police.
"I have not violated a single law," Albats said on the popular Echo of Moscow radio where she also hosts a show. She indicated her case may be politically motivated but declined to elaborate. Albats would be represented in court by her lawyer, she said.