Volgograd Region

June 08, 2025 17:03

• Law enforcers’ report shows low efficiency of raid over Roma community in Volgograd Region

  Law enforcers' raids aimed to identify illegal migration in the Ilovlinsky District were inefficient and offensive; only five people out of hundreds of checked members of the Roma community received summonses to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office). The raids became a way to replenish the ranks of special military operation (SMO) fighters at the expense of naturalized migrants.

June 04, 2025 15:44

• Volgograd student suffering from cerebral palsy sentenced to long term of imprisonment in case on high treason

  In Volgograd, a court sentenced student Andrei Glukhov to 12 years of imprisonment, recognizing as high treason his transfer in the amount of 3000 roubles to an account in a Ukrainian bank. Andrei Glukhov transferred the money to a person who claimed that he was collecting signatures to speed up negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

June 03, 2025 18:35

• Analysts assess prospects for switching to new self-government model for regions of Southern Russia

  The switch to a single-level model of self-government is unfit for the republics of Northern Caucasus, as it breaks the established political alignments. However, even in the event of a transition to a new model, the negative effect for the republics of Southern Russia will be less than for other regions.

June 03, 2025 14:37

• SC mitigates sentence for General Muzraev

  The cassation court has reduced the sentence for Mikhail Muzraev, convicted in the case on the arson of the house of the Volgograd Region Governor, from 20 years to 18.5 years of imprisonment. The sentence of the second defendant has been left unchanged.

May 31, 2025 18:17

• Nagavkin accuses penal colony’s deputy head of insulting him

  Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin has filed an appeal to the supervisory authorities with a request to assess the insults he was subjected to by the deputy head of the penal colony-settlement.

May 20, 2025 14:23

• Human rights defenders treat Nagavkin’s conditions of detention in penal colony as torture

  An advocate of prisoner Igor Nagavkin and human rights defenders have claimed that the conditions of his detention in the Uryupinsk penal colony-settlement are “torturous.” A court has accepted for consideration an administrative claim in which Igor Nagavkin is challenging seven penalties imposed on him.

May 12, 2025 13:26

• Social media users criticize Maria Shukshina for supporting idea of renaming Volgograd

  Actress Maria Shukshina spoke out in favour of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad. Users of her Telegram channel expressed different opinions on the issue. Meanwhile, many Volgograd residents have noted the city needs to solve a lot of problems and renaming the city is not the main one.

May 09, 2025 18:55

• Communication restrictions during holidays affect Southern Russia

  Mobile Internet shutdowns during the Victory Day celebrations are planned in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), Rostov and Volgograd Regions, sources have reported. The MTS operator in Dagestan has warned subscribers about "temporary difficulties" with mobile Internet.

May 07, 2025 14:14

• Lawyers explain mechanism for renaming Volgograd

  The official procedure for renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad, which President Putin “promised to think about,” involves a long sequence of bureaucratic steps, but can be implemented without a referendum.

May 06, 2025 18:10

• Fighters from seven regions of Southern Russia returned from Ukrainian captivity

  The 205 persons returned to Russia as part of a prisoners of war (POWs) exchange with Ukraine include servicemen from seven regions of the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD).

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