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Izhevsk boarding school not to be shut down.
IZHEVSK, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The Izhevsk boarding school, at
which 12 adolescents cut their veins overnight from January 31 to February 1 will not be shut down, member of the Public Chamber for education and science of the republic of Udmurtia Sergei Chibirev told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
"The information that the boarding school will be disbanded and that
its students will be accommodated at other boarding schools does not
correspond to the reality. You do not scare students with such
statements," Chibirev said.
He said the boarding school has a number of problems related to
funding. This year, it decreased by two million roubles. The boarding
school is understaffed. "It is these problems that have to be resolved the
first thing," Chibirev said.
On February 1, Udmurtia's Public Chamber set up a working group to
probe the Izhevsk school incident.
It announced preliminary results on February 9, saying that the main
cause was the ineffective work by educators.
The final recommendations are due by February 15. The working group
will bring them forward to the children's ombudsman under the Russian
president and municipal bodies.
At present, only 30 Russian regions have children's ombudsmen. By the
end of this year, this institution will be set up in all the remaining
provinces, children's ombudsmen Pavel Astakhov told a news conference on
Tuesday.
Every region needs its an ombudsman in order to effectively settle the
existing problems, such as assistance to children subjected to violence
and to the abandoned children. Also, it is necessary to secure the
observation of children's rights at boarding schools and children's homes.
Commenting on the preliminary results of the probe, Astakhov told Tass
that he ruled out the possibility of the incident being used in order to
oust the boarding school director.
On January 31, Artur Rubchikov, 17, persuaded a number of students at
the Izhevsk boarding school, aged 10 to 14, into cutting their veins.
Rubchikov cut his veins, too. The children were rushed to hospital where
medics tended to the wounds, and then returned them to the boarding school.
Rubchikov will have to undergo a psychiatric expert examination,
senior aide to the prosecutor of Izhevsk's Pervomaisky district Natalia
Alexeyeva said. She added that a criminal case had been opened against the
teenager over beatings.
A preliminary check found that Rubchikov was in a state of alcoholic
intoxication at the moment of the incident. He initially explained that
his action was aimed at ousting boarding school director Dmitry Gavrikov.
If proven guilty, the youth may face up to two years in prison.
Astakhov, who initiated his own probe into the incident, believes the
administration of the boarding school is responsible for what has happened
to a considerable extent. It turned a blind eye to the ripening conflict,
the ombudsman said.
Udmurtia leader Alexander Volkov has taken the investigation into the
incident under personal supervision.
Earlier, Udmurtia prosecutor Sergei Panov said two educators had been
convicted for beating children at the boarding school, but were not
relieved of their duties after the trial. This might have provoked the
conflict, Panov said.
On November 16, 2009, the Izhevsk magistrate court convicted educators
Ruslan Mardanov and Shakkhir Chistyakov for inflicting light injuries on a
boarding school student.
The investigators said the educators had beaten up the youth and
damaged his kidney. The court fined both 5,000 roubles, but issued no
order that they be relieved of their duties.
After a check by prosecutors the school director fired one of them on
December 25, 2009, and transferred the other to the job of repairman.
"At present, a check is underway at the boarding school, which will
assess the correctness of the officials' actions in this situation," Panov
underlined.
"The child, beaten up by the educators, was not the initiator of the
recent incident," he added.
Panov also said Artur Rubchikov, who was behind the incident, might
have staged it in connection with his coming of age.
"Under the law, he must leave the boarding school when he turns of
age, and perhaps, he was afraid," Panov said.
.SKP investigates 40,000 cases against officials in 2009.
MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The Investigations Committee under
the Prosecutor General's Office (SKP) investigated more than 40,000
criminal cases against officials last year, SKP chief said in an interview
published by the newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Wednesday.
"More than 40,000 crimes committed by officials were investigated in
2009... mostly fraud, bribe-taking, abuse of office powers, and misuse of
budget money," Bastrykin said.
The criminal cases over 16,000 such crimes were sent to court; of
those, 5,448 cases were opened over bribe-taking and 3,512 officials were
held criminally liable within them.
-0-myz
which 12 adolescents cut their veins overnight from January 31 to February 1 will not be shut down, member of the Public Chamber for education and science of the republic of Udmurtia Sergei Chibirev told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
"The information that the boarding school will be disbanded and that
its students will be accommodated at other boarding schools does not
correspond to the reality. You do not scare students with such
statements," Chibirev said.
He said the boarding school has a number of problems related to
funding. This year, it decreased by two million roubles. The boarding
school is understaffed. "It is these problems that have to be resolved the
first thing," Chibirev said.
On February 1, Udmurtia's Public Chamber set up a working group to
probe the Izhevsk school incident.
It announced preliminary results on February 9, saying that the main
cause was the ineffective work by educators.
The final recommendations are due by February 15. The working group
will bring them forward to the children's ombudsman under the Russian
president and municipal bodies.
At present, only 30 Russian regions have children's ombudsmen. By the
end of this year, this institution will be set up in all the remaining
provinces, children's ombudsmen Pavel Astakhov told a news conference on
Tuesday.
Every region needs its an ombudsman in order to effectively settle the
existing problems, such as assistance to children subjected to violence
and to the abandoned children. Also, it is necessary to secure the
observation of children's rights at boarding schools and children's homes.
Commenting on the preliminary results of the probe, Astakhov told Tass
that he ruled out the possibility of the incident being used in order to
oust the boarding school director.
On January 31, Artur Rubchikov, 17, persuaded a number of students at
the Izhevsk boarding school, aged 10 to 14, into cutting their veins.
Rubchikov cut his veins, too. The children were rushed to hospital where
medics tended to the wounds, and then returned them to the boarding school.
Rubchikov will have to undergo a psychiatric expert examination,
senior aide to the prosecutor of Izhevsk's Pervomaisky district Natalia
Alexeyeva said. She added that a criminal case had been opened against the
teenager over beatings.
A preliminary check found that Rubchikov was in a state of alcoholic
intoxication at the moment of the incident. He initially explained that
his action was aimed at ousting boarding school director Dmitry Gavrikov.
If proven guilty, the youth may face up to two years in prison.
Astakhov, who initiated his own probe into the incident, believes the
administration of the boarding school is responsible for what has happened
to a considerable extent. It turned a blind eye to the ripening conflict,
the ombudsman said.
Udmurtia leader Alexander Volkov has taken the investigation into the
incident under personal supervision.
Earlier, Udmurtia prosecutor Sergei Panov said two educators had been
convicted for beating children at the boarding school, but were not
relieved of their duties after the trial. This might have provoked the
conflict, Panov said.
On November 16, 2009, the Izhevsk magistrate court convicted educators
Ruslan Mardanov and Shakkhir Chistyakov for inflicting light injuries on a
boarding school student.
The investigators said the educators had beaten up the youth and
damaged his kidney. The court fined both 5,000 roubles, but issued no
order that they be relieved of their duties.
After a check by prosecutors the school director fired one of them on
December 25, 2009, and transferred the other to the job of repairman.
"At present, a check is underway at the boarding school, which will
assess the correctness of the officials' actions in this situation," Panov
underlined.
"The child, beaten up by the educators, was not the initiator of the
recent incident," he added.
Panov also said Artur Rubchikov, who was behind the incident, might
have staged it in connection with his coming of age.
"Under the law, he must leave the boarding school when he turns of
age, and perhaps, he was afraid," Panov said.
.SKP investigates 40,000 cases against officials in 2009.
MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The Investigations Committee under
the Prosecutor General's Office (SKP) investigated more than 40,000
criminal cases against officials last year, SKP chief said in an interview
published by the newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Wednesday.
"More than 40,000 crimes committed by officials were investigated in
2009... mostly fraud, bribe-taking, abuse of office powers, and misuse of
budget money," Bastrykin said.
The criminal cases over 16,000 such crimes were sent to court; of
those, 5,448 cases were opened over bribe-taking and 3,512 officials were
held criminally liable within them.
-0-myz
