The court confirmed the mayor's ban on public worship in memory of the victims of USSR terror

On July 27, the Syktyvkar City Court upheld the mayor's office's decision to ban public worship in memory of the victims of the Great Terror in the USSR in 1937-38 on Stefanovskaya Square. This is reported by "7 × 7".

Public activists Vera Tereshonkova and Viktor Torpolov are trying to appeal the decision of the city authorities. On July 18, they filed a notice of holding an event in memory of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the tragic events, as well as the 85th anniversary of the destruction of St. Stephen's Cathedral on the square. The divine service was supposed to be held on July 30 at the site of the temple, it was planned that 25-30 people would take part in it.

On July 20, the City Hall sent a refusal to the applicants with reference to the 54th Federal Law (“On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets”), as well as to the decision of the Komi State Council, which determined the places where public events are prohibited (the law was lobbied by the republican branch Liberal Democratic Party and adopted in November 2012). .

In court, a representative of the administration of Syktyvkar, Vladislav Matveev, indicated that the mayor's office suggested other places that are of no lesser public importance. He noted that such a form of event as public worship, although not specified in 54-FZ, has the same status as other public actions. Judge Fyodor Avtushin agreed with the mayor's office representative.