Karelia
Russia Loses Conscientious Workers as Attacks on Faith Go On
According to tabulations April 20, 2020, three years after the liquidation of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ communities, 332 people became victims of criminal prosecution, 166 of these undergoing imprisonment. These are honest, non-drinking workers: teachers, builders, firefighters, accountants, lawyers. Authorities ruin their career, paralyze their life.
Dmitriy Ravnushkin from Petrozavodsk who was 4 times acquitted for his peaceful stance can be put to trial because of his faith. Read his biography
9 October 2019
A driver and father of two put in recognisance because of a criminal case due to his faith. Read biography of Mikhail Gordeev, 59, from Petrozavodsk
24 September 2019
Accountant Maksim Amosov from Karelia may go under trial because of choosing a “wrong” religion, as the authorities say. Here is his bio
29 August 2019
Petrozavodsk citizen Nikolay Leshchеnko, 57, faces criminal persecution for studying the book that changed his life to the better. His biography is revealing
29 August 2019
Engineer and father of three children in Karelia charged with extremism only because of his Christian views. Aleksey Smelov’s biography published
27 August 2019
July 31, 2019, law enforcement personnel of the Republic of Karelia conduct raids on Witnesses’ homes in the city of Petrozavodsk
31 July 2019
Family of Jehovah’s Witnesses Receives Medal From Head of State
On 31 May 2017 in Moscow, at a meeting in the Kremlin, the country’s president gave Valeriy and Tatyana Novik, Jehovah’s Witnesses from Karelia, the “Order of Parental Glory” medal.
6 June 2017