Evidence of pressure on Jehovah's Witnesses in different regions at the end of 2009 - beginning of 2010.
On October 12, 2009, at the request of the prosecutor's office of the Kemerovo region, the Department of Public Health of the regional administration sent a letter to the heads of territorial health authorities, chief doctors of the Central City Hospital, Central District Hospital, and state health care institutions with a request to urgently provide “information about the facts of refusals for religious reasons from the procedure blood transfusion, as well as the presence in medical documents