Volgograd Region

May 02, 2025 14:02

• Renaming Volgograd airport becomes an attempt to rehabilitate Joseph Stalin

  The decree on renaming the Volgograd airport to “Stalingrad” signed by the Russian President fits into a series of conscious and unconscious attempts to rehabilitate the name of Stalin, but there is no real public demand for that, historians and human rights defenders note.

April 30, 2025 14:12

• President Putin renames Volgograd airport as “Stalingrad”

  Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, informed Russian President Vladimir Putin that the military veteran community and participants of the special military operation asked to rename the Volgograd airport to “Stalingrad”. Vladimir Putin signed the appropriate decree on the same day.

March 30, 2025 18:01

• Volgograd activists call to support political prisoners with letters

  Organizers and participants of the evening of letters to political prisoners in Volgograd, despite fears of detentions and provocations by law enforcers, called support for those unfairly arrested and convicted for their civic position an important mission.

March 29, 2025 22:15

• Court finds ban for rights defender to see Nagavkin as lawful

  The refusal to allow Valentin Bogdan, a human rights defender, to visit Igor Nagavkin in the colony was found to be lawful. The court has ignored the arguments presented by the human rights defender.

March 19, 2025 21:17

• Volgograd student apologizes for criticizing Mufti

  A student from Syria studying in Volgograd recorded a video apologizing for his reaction to the Mufti’s words about the events in the Middle East.

March 06, 2025 23:32

• Lawyer Ruslan Nurushev faces torture conditions during his trial

  International principles for the protection of prisoners’ rights were violated when Ruslan Nurushev was delivered to a court in Volgograd, claims lawyer Roman Melnichenko.

February 26, 2025 22:30

• Human rights defender Nagavkin loses lawsuit on penalties imposed in colony

  The Uryupinsk City Court has upheld the penalties imposed on Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, who is serving his term in a colony settlement. His defence treats the court ruling as biased and intends to appeal against it.

February 18, 2025 21:56

• Oppositionist Yefimov arrested in Volzhsky for 14 days

  In the city of Volzhsky, a court sentenced Alexander Yefimov, a member of the “Yabloko” Party, to administrative arrest for displaying a portrait of Alexei Navalny.

February 18, 2025 21:25

• In Volgograd, participants in Navalny’s memorial event complain of pressure from police

  In Volgograd, activists who laid flowers at the monument to victims of political repression in memory of Alexei Navalny were intimidated by the police. At least three persons are known to have been detained.

February 17, 2025 23:41

• Alexei Navalny’s commemorations held in cities of Southern Russia and Southern Caucasus

  On the anniversary of Alexei Navalny's death, his associates have honoured the politician's memory in Russian cities, as well as in the capitals of Armenia and Georgia.

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