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| The court decided to remove the Stalin monument in Vologda and return 10 million rubles for it |
| 2025-07-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Stalinists, including Borya hardest hit. [Regnum] The monument to Joseph Stalin, which was erected in the center of Vologda at the end of 2024, must be removed, and the entrepreneur is obliged to return the budget money spent on its production. This decision was made by the Arbitration Court of the Vologda Region. In April of this year, the regional prosecutor's office filed a corresponding lawsuit. The agency demanded that the contract for the installation of the monument be declared invalid and that 10.5 million rubles be returned to the budget. According to the United Press Service of the regional courts, the basis for the department's appeal to the court was violations in the sphere of state procurement. They were revealed during the prosecutor's inspection. “The prosecutor’s office established that the contract was concluded in violation of the principles of openness, competition and efficient use of budget funds,” the press service said in a statement. Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that the Vologda Region Prosecutor's Office demanded that the contract for the creation of the monument between the individual entrepreneur Ekaterina Lozhenitsyna and the Vologda State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve be cancelled. It is on its territory that the monument to Stalin was erected. In this building, the revolutionary was exiled in 1911-1912. |
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