Volgograd Region

June 30, 2019 11:06

• Volgograd activist demands Putin's resignation

  On June 29, Olga Karpukhnova, a resident of Volgograd, held a solo picket, while pointing to a large number of poor people among Russians and urging President Putin to voluntarily leave his post.

June 17, 2019 21:54

• Lapunov calls missing Volgograd resident inmate of Chechen gay prison

  The investigating authorities have received the testimonies of Maxim Lapunov that along with him the secret gay prison in Chechnya also kept Andrei Kobyshev, a native of the Volgograd Region, who had disappeared in Grozny, the Radio Liberty reports with reference to Vladimir Smirnov, a lawyer of the Committee Against Torture (CAT).

June 14, 2019 20:29

• Wives of drug policemen in Volgograd demand to justify their husbands

  Tatiana Stepanenko and Margarita Kaverina have held solo pickets in Volgograd, declaring the innocence of their convicted husbands and calling on the authorities to release them.

June 08, 2019 12:27

• Editors-in-chief of Krasnodar media come out in support of Golunov

  Artyom Besedin and Vlad Yanyushkin, the editors-in-chief of the "Yuga.ru" and "Free Media", have held solo pickets in Krasnodar in support of the journalist Ivan Golunov arrested in Moscow.

June 08, 2019 11:49

• Journalist-researcher of Kadyrov's entourage detained in Moscow

  Colleagues of Ivan Golunov, a "Meduza" journalist, detained in Moscow on suspicion of drug dealing, associate his persecution with his professional activities.

June 04, 2019 18:49

• Volgograd Region: not enough room in mosques for believers to mark Uraza Bayram

  Today, at least 200,000 Muslims, who live and came to the Volgograd Region to visit their relatives or get seasonal work, took part in celebrating the Uraza Bayram holiday, Andrei Kirilenko, the executive officer of the regional Muftiate has stated.

June 04, 2019 00:52

• Ban on LGBT actions in Volzhsky appealed against at the ECtHR

  The prohibition of the gay parade and two LGBT pickets, scheduled in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region, for August 2018, has been appealed against at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today, Nikolai Alekseev, an LGBT movement activist, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

May 23, 2019 18:53

• Stanislav Zimovets voices reasons for his hunger strike in Volzhsky penal colony

  Stanislav Zimovets, a resident of the city of Volzhsky, sentenced for using violence against a policeman during a protest action, has been on the hunger strike since May 14. He demands to release political prisoners, his advocate reports today.

May 23, 2019 14:52

• Two residents of Volgograd Region tell about slave labour in Kalmykia

  Alexander Kozlov and Alexander Kolesnikov, residents of the Volgograd settlement of "Zarya", said that they had been kept against their will at livestock farms in Kalmykia.

May 20, 2019 13:36

• Volgograd activists call Kremlin to peace with Ukraine

  In Volgograd, four activists have held solo pickets demanding from Russian authorities to stop putting pressure on Ukraine.

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