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Sakhalin SK started a criminal case from a demolished monument to Gagarin
On Sakhalin, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case because of the monument to the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who was demolished at the direction of the vice-mayor of Nevelsk and was thrown out onto the seashore. This was reported by the local prosecutor's office and the regional department of the SK.
Photo: Office of the SK in the Sakhalin Region
The criminal case was brought under the article on the destruction or damage of cultural heritage objects (part 1 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code) on August 13. The suspects are not reported.
On the vice-mayor of Nevelsk, they drew up a protocol on arbitrariness (Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the prosecutor's office, in June he asked representatives of the Spetsstroy company to dismantle the stele, while the official did not have permission to demolish the monument.
On August 11, the governor of the Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko demanded to restore the bas -relief of Gagagrin. The mayor of the Nevelsky district, Alexei Shabelnik, assured that "the monument has long been written off, was in disrepair and did not submit the repair." The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin promised to turn to the local authorities "for clarification and the requirement to restore the monument."