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Nazi crimes committed in Russia’s Leningrad region during WWII recognized as genocide

The Leningrad Regional Court on Monday recognized crimes committed by the Nazis in the region during the Great Patriotic War as genocide.

13:01 10.10.2022

Prosecutor General asked to intervene in situation with war burials desecration

Russia’s Civic Chamber has appealed to the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov requesting to check the situation with the desecration of burials dated back to the Great Patriotic War in the Tosno District of the Leningrad Region.

18:07 10.06.2021

Ex-chief of customs in Leningrad Region challenges seizure of assets in graft case

A former chief of the Kingisepp customs in Russia’s Leningrad Region, Sergey Slepukhin, who stands charged with taking bribes, has challenged a court ruling on seizure of assets worth over 30 million rubles (over $400,000).

13:44 26.05.2021

Co-owner of Internet retailer Ulmart declared bankrupt

The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has declared a co-owner of Russian Internet retailer Ulmart Dmitry Kostygin bankrupt.

10:56 25.11.2020

Russia’s Investigative Committee opens case over discovery of mass WW2 grave

A criminal case was opened by investigators after a mass grave of Soviet citizens murdered during the World War II had been discovered in the Leningrad Region.

13:01 17.09.2020

Leningrad Region official suspected of $9 mln embezzlement

Alexander Boluchevsky, Chairman of the finance committee of the Leningrad Region’s Vyborg district administration, has been arrested on suspicion of stealing 700 million rubles (over $9 million).

14:16 14.09.2020

Penal facilities in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region lack mother-and-child homes – ombudsman

Correctional institutions of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region have no functioning facilities where women giving birth in penal colonies could live with their children, the Office of St. Petersburg Rights Commissioner Alexander Shishlov informs RAPSI on Wednesday.

12:08 02.09.2020

Ex-Leningrad Region penitentiary official imprisoned for 15 years for murder organization

The Leningrad Regional Court based on a guilty verdict of jurors sentenced ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko to 15 years in high-security prison for organization of assassination against his subordinate.

17:18 25.08.2020

Sentence delivered in Kronstadt eternal flame barbeque case

Organizer of a night barbeque on the eternal flame near the Naval Cathedral in Russia’s port city Kronstadt has received 2 years of restriction of liberty.

10:50 06.07.2020

Terrorist recruiter sentenced to 10 years in high-security prison

A recruiting agent of Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organization banned in Russia Khokim Abdukhalimov has received 10 years in a high-security penal colony.

15:12 10.06.2020

Defense Ministry ordered to pay $60k to mother of soldier killed by tank fire

A court in the Leningrad Region obliged Russia’s Defense Ministry to pay 4 million rubles (about $60,000) to the mother of a common soldier Andrey Vittikh, who had died from tank fire during army exercises because of the command officers’negligence.

15:58 04.06.2020