Khakassia Republic

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Russia’s Federal Chamber of Lawyers urges investigators to address attacks on lawyers

The Federal Chamber of Lawyers has turned to Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin in connection with the attacks on lawyers in Khakassia and the Khabarovsk Krai.

12:21 04.08.2021

Prohibition of regional cell of foreign extremist movement upheld

The Eighth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction on Thursday dismissed an appeal lodged by the representatives of a cell of Falun Dafa movement (Chinese religious doctrine Falun Gong) in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia against prohibition of the organization’s activity as extremist.

16:15 29.07.2021

Ex-deputy head of Russian Republic Khakassia gets 9 years in prison for bribery

The Abakan city court has sentenced former acting head of the Republic of Khakassia Sergey Novikov to 9 years in a strict regime colony for accepting a bribe in the amount of 2 million rubles (about $27,000) when organizing work on the construction of a neuropsychiatric residential facility.

17:35 13.05.2021

Prosecution obtains injunction of regional cell of foreign religious movement

The Fifth Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction has granted a prosecutor’s motion to ban a cell of Falun Dafa movement (Chinese religious doctrine Falun Gong) in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia.

17:26 13.11.2020

Regional official gets 2-year suspended sentence for obstruction of journalist activity

A court in Russia’s Republic Khakassia has passed a 2-year suspended sentence on a regional official Sergey Zaitsev, who had allegedly committed an assault upon a Russia TV channel camera crew member.

16:07 28.01.2020

Regional official charged with obstruction of journalist activity faces trial

The prosecutor’s office of Russia’s Republic of Khakassia approved indictment against regional official Sergey Zaitsev, who had allegedly committed an assault upon a Russia TV channel camera crew member.

19:03 23.07.2019

Probe into regional official accused of obstruction of journalist activity complete

Investigation into the head of a municipal settlement in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia Sergey Zaitsev, who had allegedly committed an assault upon a Russia TV channel camera crew member, has been completed.

15:49 19.07.2019

Russia’s regional official charged with obstruction of journalist activity

The head of a municipal settlement in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia Sergey Zaitsev, who had allegedly committed an assault upon a Russia TV channel camera crew member, was charged with obstruction of journalist activity.

17:19 03.07.2019

Ex-penitentiary officer’s sentence in prisoner torture case mitigated

The Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Khakassia has reduced a 5-year prison sentence of ex-penal colony officer Dmitry Zolotukhin convicted of torturing an inmate by 2 months.

14:57 28.06.2019

Finance Ministry ordered to pay Russian citizen $800 for unjustified prosecution

A court in Abakan, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Khakassia, has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay the local citizen Artem Yurchenko 50,000 rubles (about $800) in compensation for unjustified prosecution in the extremism case.

16:27 26.06.2019

Former regional senior official gets over 6 years for $1.5 mln embezzlement

A court in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia has sentenced a former deputy executive of the republican government Alexander Golyshev to 6 years and 3 months behind bars for embezzling 94 million rubles ($1.5 million) by executing sham contracts.

10:51 08.04.2019

Extremism charges against human rights advocate over social media post dropped

The Federal Security Service’s Directorate for Russia’s Republic of Khakassia (FSB) has dropped extremism charges against human rights campaigner Lidia Bainova over a post published on VKontakte social network.

17:43 26.11.2018

Masterminds of riots in Russian penal colony receive prison sentence

The Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Khakassia has sentenced masterminds of riots in a local penal colony in 2016 to 8 years and 7 months in high-security prison.

17:30 28.09.2018