MOSCOW, April 6 MMA fighter Maxim Novoselov appealed arrest on charges of raping an 18-year-old girl, the press service of the Tushinsky Court of Moscow said on Wednesday. «The court received an appeal against the decision to select a preventive measure,» the court said. The date for its consideration has not yet been set. As Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the Moscow Central Directorate of the RF Investigative Committee, told reporters earlier, a 49-year-old man was charged with rape and «other violent acts of a sexual nature.» According to investigators, on the night of March 27 in the north-west of Moscow he beat and raped an 18-year-old girl whom he met in an entertainment establishment. According to a law enforcement source, Novoselov and his friend, according to preliminary information, met two girls in the Hands Up club near Moscow, then they went together to another a club where they also drank alcohol.
