Website giving advices on how circumvent hospitalization blockedA court in Russia’s Chuvash Republic has found that dissemination of the information on the ways to avoid hospitalization and circumvent self-isolation regime introduced in the region as a pre-emergency measure in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic is to be prohibited.12:58 28.05.2020
Russia’s resident fined $420 for rehabilitation of NazismThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Chuvashia has imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles ($420) on a 21-year local resident for rehabilitation of Nazism.14:48 27.05.2020
Coronavirus-infected woman faces prosecution for escape from Chuvash hospitalInvestigators launched a criminal case over breaching sanitary and epidemiological rules against a woman infected with coronavirus who had escaped from a hospital in Cheboksary, the capital of Russia’s Chuvash Republic.11:59 18.05.2020
Young man faces trial on allegations of rehabilitation of NazismThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Chuvash Republic will consider a criminal case over online rehabilitation of Nazism against a 21-year local citizen.10:54 08.05.2020
Extremism convict sentenced over social media posts granted releaseA court in the city of Cheboksary on Tuesday ordered release of activist Alexey Mironov, who had been convicted of extremism and calling for a coup over his publications on VKontakte social network.17:42 22.01.2019
Ex-school principal suspected of taking $9,000 in bribesInvestigators have opened 22 criminal cases against a former principal of one of the Chuvash Republic’s schools on suspicion of receiving more than 500,000 rubles (about $9,000) in bribes and abuse of authority.11:23 20.03.2018
Russian regional ex-minister of ecology put on trial for deforestationA criminal case against Russian Republic of Chuvashia’s former minister of natural resources and ecology, Anatoly Yermolayev, charged with unlawful deforestation, has been transferred to a court.11:55 06.03.2017
Russian court upholds sentence for pensioner over VKontakte postThe Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic upheld a two-year suspended sentence handed down to pensioner Nikolay Egorov for reposting extremist content on VKontakte social network.16:38 28.12.2016
Russian pensioner receives suspended sentence for repost on social mediaA court in the Chuvash Republic found the local pensioner Nikolai Egorov guilty of incitement of national hatred by repost of a publication on VKontakte social network and gave him a two-year suspended sentence.11:50 14.10.2016
Russian pensioner charged with extremism for repost on social mediaRussia’s Investigative Committee has charged 62-year-old resident of the Chuvash Republic, Nikolai Egorov, with incitement of national hatred by repost of a publication on VKontakte social network.16:23 31.03.2016
Russian court fines civic activist for reposting demotivational posterThe Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary, Chuvashia, has ruled that civic activist Dmitry Semyonov is to pay 150,000 rubles ($2,275) for inciting extremism by means of reposting a demotivational poster and has amnestied him.11:47 17.09.2015