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Several minors suspected of war memorial desecration in Crimea - investigators

Crimean investigators have initiated probe into several minors suspected of desecration of the memorial complex of the lost during the Civil war in 1917-1922 in Sevastopol.

12:00 31.08.2021

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

Putin urges to defend Soviet war memorials abroad vigorously

President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged to protect memorials of Soviet soldiers abroad harshly and sequentially drawing on the international law.

15:57 20.05.2021

State Duma adopts bill on commemorating soldiers fallen in battles of Great Patriotic War

The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a bill introducing a moratorium on construction and earthworks in the territories where the remains of soldiers who had died during the Great Patriotic War would be found.

17:47 14.04.2021

Russian investigators open case over war memorial damage in Latvian Jekabpils

Russian investigators have launched a case after the alleged theft of a main gun estabelished above the mass grave at the Latvian Jekabpils manumitters’ memorial.

18:07 26.02.2021

Head of Russia’s human rights body calls to capture mass grave definition in legislation

Definition of the mass grave site should be enshrined in Russian legislation, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Valery Fadeyev said during the mourning action Bell of Memory on Friday.

17:23 30.10.2020

Russia’s rights activist urges probe into desecration of WW2 memorial in Poland

Member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council Standing Commission on International Cooperation in Human Rights Alexander Brod believes Russia’s Investigative Committee must react to the desecration of a memorial of Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky in Poland.

16:14 05.08.2020

Criminal penalty for damage to war memorials fixed in Russia

President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill on criminal punishment for destruction or damage of war cemeteries and memorials commemorating fallen defenders of the Motherland or devoted to the Days of War Glory of Russia into law.

15:51 07.04.2020

Prison terms for damage to war memorials to be captured in Russia’s criminal law

The State Duma lawmakers passed a bill on punishment for destruction or damage of war cemeteries and memorials commemorating fallen defenders of the Motherland or devoted to the Days of War Glory of Russia in a final third reading on Tuesday.

17:08 31.03.2020