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We require that Russian government departments should abide by the inner and international laws on human right, freedom of conscience and religion. We require that long-term persecution against Vladimir Petrovich Melichov (Podolsk) for his nonconformity of thinking which now has transformed into sheer intimidation and threatening of his and the members of his family should be stopped.
Vladimir Petrovich Melichov is a prominent representative of the Cossack movement in Podolsk and Cossack’s village Elanskaya. He is also the founder and the director of the museums of anti-Bolshevik resistance situated in these towns. That was because of his efforts that a chapel in memory of destroyed by the Stalin regime in 1945 Cossacks was built on the Cossack cemetery in Lienz (Austria). He himself, however, did not manage to visit the ceremony of opening and sanctification of the chapel. He was detained in the airport of Domodedovo as the frontier guards claimed that his passport was invalid because it missed a page. Later Melichov said that this missing page was cut out by the guards who tried not to let him leave the country. (echo.msk.ru/blog/melihov_v)
The same way three more members of Cossack’s movement were refused to leave the country: Oleg Gaponov, Yevgeny Shevchuk and Vladimir Kalita.
The persecution against Melichov, involving intimidation and searches, still lasts. The most recent case of searches was in the beginning of the June of the 2015 when Melichov’s apartment and his museums in Podolsk were examined.
We claim that all that have been done in relation to Melichov is a brutal violation of human rights and freedom of religion as Melichov was deprived of the ability to go to Lienz and perform prayerful reverence in honour of the perished Cossacks.
June 2015
Prague – Lienz
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