Baptist church minister beaten in Novgorod

On December 29, 2010, a youth youth was beaten up in Veliky Novgorod. Minister of the Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Novgorod region Vladislav Korabel. His father, pastor Anatoly Korabel, said that his son on his way to worship, about 100 meters from the prayer house stopped by two men in camouflage uniforms and hit silently. Vladislav received severe traumatic brain injury, fracture of the temporal bone and upper jaw.

According to the pastor, the attack was provoked by "anti-sectarian" stories shown on local television on 10 and 13 December. Sources

• In Veliky Novgorod, after showing anti-sectarian stories on television, a youth minister of the Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists was severely beaten // Slavic Legal Center. 2011. January 11.