A second criminal case was opened in the Perm region because of the Memorial expedition

In the Kudymkarsky district of the Perm Territory, police officers opened a criminal case on fictitious registration of foreign citizens against Leonid Ladanov, a resident of the village of Velva-Baza, where members of the Memorial expedition stopped. about this . writes The Parma News portal

The case under Article 322.2 of the Criminal Code against Ladanov was opened because two Lithuanian citizens registered with him, who arrived at the Lithuanian-Polish cemetery in Galyashora, where victims of political repressions are buried.

Since 2000, Memorial's employees have been organizing expeditions to the cemetery, where they are engaged in ennobling it. On August 12, it became known that the police opened a case on illegal logging (Article 260 of the Criminal Code) because of the last expedition. There are no suspects or defendants in the case yet.

• On August 10, the police came to the Memorial employees in the uninhabited village of Galyashor. They interrogated the memorialists until two in the morning, threatening them with a criminal case for deforestation.
• In 2016, Lithuanians already installed a memorial sign at the cemetery of the abandoned village of Galyashor in the Kudymkar region. The head of the district then did not respond to their appeal. Law enforcement agencies regarded the actions of the Lithuanians as a self-seizure of forest fund lands, issuing fines to two residents of the Perm Territory who helped them. After the intervention of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Perm Territory, the fines were canceled, and the monument was legalized.