South Federal District

September 16, 2024 19:10

• Court appoints compensation to family in Volgograd Region for missile debris falling on their house

  A court in the Volgograd Region has ordered officials to pay 4.7 million roubles to the Brunts family, whose home and property were damaged by falling missile debris.

September 16, 2024 10:24

• Alexei Abramov's wife complains about deterioration of his health in SMO zone in Ukraine

  At the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, Alexei Abramov, a Krasnodar resident, was included into an assault squad, although he can only move on crutches. On the frontline, his legs became very swollen, and his health worsened, his wife Ksenia Abramova has stated.

September 15, 2024 23:09

• Rights defender Nagavkin demands compensation for custody conditions at Leninsk SIZO

  In his lawsuit, Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has claimed to be paid 900,000 roubles for being kept in unsanitary conditions at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). Authorities are obliged to keep detainees in accordance with sanitary requirements, a lawyer and a human rights defender have confirmed.

September 15, 2024 14:48

• Volgograd residents dispute about restoration of bas-relief with Stalin

  The restoration of a bas-relief with a portrait of Stalin on the facade of the Volgograd Medical University has become a sign of Stalinism revival and insults the memory of repression victims, some residents of Volgograd have pointed out. Their opponents object that monuments merely reflect history.

September 14, 2024 22:37

• ECtHR recognizes violation of Krasnodar activist Antonova’s rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensation to Krasnodar activist Yana Antonova for her arrest in 2017.

September 14, 2024 20:06

• Police report investigation into actions of Volgograd propagandists

  The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is investigating a complaint lodged by lawyer Roman Melnichenko about incitement of hatred and disclosure of personal data of Alexei Navalny’s supporters in Volgograd by employees of a TV Company. Lawyer Ruslan Nurushev filed an appeal against the police’s refusal of his complaint to conduct an investigation into the legality of the propagandists’ actions.

September 13, 2024 20:41

• Appeal court tightens verdict to rights defender Igor Nagavkin

  After considering the appeal complaints, the Volgograd Regional Court has replaced the conditional two-year freedom deprivation term appointed to Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, for a real one. Nagavkin treats the decision as unfair and intends to challenge it.

September 13, 2024 17:38

• Kuban Jehovah's Witness* complains about absence of medical care at SIZO

  The advocate of Valery Bailo, a convicted Jehovah's Witness* from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), has filed complaints to the prosecutor's office about the absence of medical care, but was still unable to get treatment for his client, who is suffering from the consequences of a knee injury and acute toothache. The SIZO's medical unit has stated that Bailo needs no emergency care.

September 12, 2024 23:28

• Unidentified persons set fire to car of Rostov blogger Gaspar Avakyan again

  At night, unidentified persons set fire to a car of Rostov blogger Gaspar Avakyan. This is the second arson of the car belonging to the blogger within a week.

September 12, 2024 21:07

• Details of extremism case against believers from the Kuban village revealed

  Investigators have charged Vladimir Lepsky from the village of Vyselki with reading aloud the books of Jehovah's Witnesses*. The husband of another defendant, Irina Ushakova, is involved in the case as the organizer of an extremist cell, Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses*, has stated.

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