Volgograd Region

July 02, 2020 21:56

• Chechnya registers 95% voter turnout during pandemic

  According to the official statistics, Chechnya showed the highest voter turnout in the Russian Federation at the voting on amendments to the Constitution. In Southern Russia, ten regions registered lower voter turnout as compared to the presidential election in 2018.

June 25, 2020 22:38

• Volgograd resident accused of killing a student because of national hatred

  Vitaly Vasiliev, a resident of Volgograd, faces a life sentence for the murder of Timur Gavrilov, a student from Azerbaijan.

June 22, 2020 22:01

• In Volgograd, Azerbaijani student murdered because of national enmity

  Investigators found that a man suspected of murdering an Azerbaijani student was a member of an organization engaged in cultivating hatred towards people of different nationalities. The investigators suggest that the suspect made a deliberate decision to murder a non-Russian.

June 15, 2020 16:36

• Constitution amendments on federal territories worry North-Caucasian activists

  The amendments to the Russian Constitution will not change Russians' lives for the better, activists in Southern Russia believe. In their opinion, the voting outcomes can be easily falsified. Activists in Northern Caucasus are also concerned about the amendment formulations on federal territories.

April 28, 2020 01:50

• Sources report man's death from grenade explosion in Volgograd

  A grenade has exploded in a car parked in a street in Volgograd, killing a man, a source from the city's emergency services has preliminarily reported.

April 21, 2020 22:06

• Dagestan shows highest COVID-19 death toll in Southern Russia

  By April 21, the regions of Southern Russia registered 49 deceased patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Of them, at least seven died within last 24 hours. Dagestan, where 11 people have died since the beginning of the epidemic, continues to show the highest death toll among the regions of Southern Russia.

April 17, 2020 00:00

• Coronavirus-infected family faces bullying in Volgograd Region

  The Gorbachov family from the Ilovlinsky District, in which coronavirus was confirmed in three members, has faced bullying.

April 02, 2020 11:30

• Doctor from Kalach-on-Don complains of pressure after scandalous video appeal

  The head physician of the central hospital of the Kalach District has applied to the prosecutor's office regarding the disclosure of untrue information about the work of the hospital, Tatiana Revva, a resuscitation doctor and the author of the scandalous video message, has told.

March 06, 2020 12:17

• Thirty-seven Jehovah's Witnesses* in Southern Russia are under inquiry after MoJ's lawsuit

  Over almost three years after the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to liquidate all the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses, announced as extremist, hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses* in different regions of Russia were criminally prosecuted. By March 5, 2020, the number of such believers has reached at least 320, says the website containing information about criminal cases against Jehovah's Witnesses*. Almost 12% of them are residents of Southern Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" has counted.

February 21, 2020 18:07

• Authorities refuse to sanction rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in centre of Volgograd

  The Volgograd administration did not sanction a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in the city centre with reference to an alleged need for cleaning and landscaping.

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