Updated: March 28, 2024
Name: Loginskiy Yuriy Vladimirovich
Date of Birth: May 23, 1966
Current status: convicted person
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1.1), 282.2 (2)
Time spent in prison: 1 day in a temporary detention facility, 368 day Under house arrest
Current restrictions: Suspended sentence
Sentence: punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 2 years without restriction of liberty, the punishment is considered conditional, with a probationary period of 2 years

Biography

Yuriy Loginskiy, who has been a construction worker all his life, was accused of extremism and placed under house arrest in March 2021 solely because of his belief in Jehovah God.

Yuriy was born in May 1966 in Sochi and has lived there all his life. His father was a builder and his mother was a teacher. Yuri and his older sister followed in the footsteps of their parents: he received the specialty of a tiler and mosaicist, and his sister became a teacher.

Yuriy met his future wife, Svetlana, when she was in Sochi on vacation. They got married in the summer of 1987. In 1988, their son Dmitriy was born. After school, he received a higher education in the field of construction and works in his specialty. The family loves to spend time with friends in nature, and Yuriy cooks for them with pleasure.

Yuriy and Svetlana became acquainted with Bible teachings a few years after their marriage and began to study the Holy Scriptures together. Having received convincing answers to vital questions and having examined strong evidence of the authenticity of the Bible, in 1996 the Loginskiys made the decision to embark on the Christian path one day. In raising their son, the couple adhered to biblical principles. The exact fulfillment of the prophecies and the wisdom of the advice in this book prompted Dmitriy to become a Christian too.

Unfair criminal prosecution and long months of house arrest affected Yuriy's health. In addition, the prohibition to leave the home deprived him of the opportunity to provide for his family. All this depresses the believer, so he is grateful to his relatives for their support.

Case History

In March 2021, Vladimir Deshko, Yuriy Loginsky, Yuriy Moskalyov and Tatyana Velizhanina were arrested for their belief in God. Officers of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory participated in the detention of Sochi residents. Two days later, the court ruled to detain Deshko and Velizhanina in a pre-trial detention center, and Loginsky and Moskalev under house arrest. For conversations about God with local residents, believers were accused of “involvement in the activities of an extremist organization.” Tatyana Velizhanina had covid in a pre-trial detention center. She and Deshko were placed under house arrest after 11 and 10 months in a pre-trial detention center, respectively. In February 2022, the criminal case was submitted to the Khostinsky District Court of Sochi, and it was appointed to Judge Konstantin Sidoruk. On March 28, 2022, he found the believers guilty and sentenced Velizhanina to 1 year and 5 months, and Deshko to 1 year and 4 months in prison, which they actually served. Moskalev and Loginskiy were sentenced to 2 years of suspended sentence without restriction of freedom with a probationary period of 2 years.