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10 July 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Don Cossack Cultural Centre
Don Cossack Cultural Centre
Sergei Yolkin
2009
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The Don Cossack Host asked Governor Vladimir Chub of Rostov Oblast to establish a Cossack cultural centre in Novocherkassk. Vladimir Voronin, Deputy Ataman of the Don Cossack Host for Ideological Affairs, said, “For Cossacks, the Don land is like Mecca for the Muslims. It often happens that Cossacks come to us to learn and to share experiences, but there’s nowhere that we can go to teach them other than the Museum in Novocherkassk“. He noted that the Don Cossack Host Cultural Centre should gather all the significant literature related to the Cossacks and their folkways. In addition, the centre would be able to bring together Cossack artistic ensembles that are now under the Ministry of Culture or independent.
16 November 2009
Sergei Yolkin
RIA-Novosti
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Rostov Oblast Refused to Give Permission for Lifesaving Treatment for their Son
Blood transfusions are a necessary part of many medical procedures… sectarians should have NO right to refuse them to their minor children. If adult religious nutters wish to die, that’s one thing… if they try to kill a child through their pigheaded idiocy, that’s quite another. Good on the doctors… they did right and they deserve our congratulations and respect.
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The actions of the parents of 14-year-old Anton Panchenko, who’re Jehovah’s Witnesses sectarians from Bataisk in Rostov Oblast, nearly killed him. A month ago, he had an accident riding on a scooter. This led to a hip fracture, a ruptured spleen and intestine, lung contusions, and traumatic brain injury. When Anton hovered close to death, questions arose concerning an emergency blood transfusion, but his parents refused the procedure, referring to their religious beliefs. Nevertheless, the doctors had to administer a blood transfusion, according to Экспресс-газета (Express-gazeta: Express Newspaper). “We, as his physicians, were in a complex legal situation… if we went along with his parents, we’d be punished under the principle “they failed to render aid to the dying”. Not to mention the fact that, humanly speaking, to have a 14-year-old guy die because of his parents’ religion is ridiculous”, said Dr Fyodor Sharshov, the chief of paediatric anaesthesiology-resuscitation for the Ministry of Health of Rostov Oblast, head of the paediatric ICU at the Oblast Children’s Hospital. Meanwhile, Anton’s parents threatened to sue the Oblast Children’s Hospital for administering a blood transfusion without their consent.
16 August 2011
Interfax-Religion
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