Prominent gay activist and lawyer Nikolai Alexeyev was arrested at Domodedovo airport on Wednesday evening as he tried to board a plane bound for Geneva. He sent text messages on Thursday morning telling friends he had been taken out of the city and did not know exactly where he was, while he faced pressure to halt his law suit against mayor Yury Luzhkov. “It is quite possible that the arrest was connected with a picket demanding the resignation of the homophobic mayor of Moscow Luzhkov,” Alexeyev’s colleague Nikolai Bayev said in a press release on Gayrussia.ru. Gay activists had previously...