A court in Rostov-on-Don arrested the director of a Stavropol closed-type school, Stepan Lyubenko, in the case of sending students to clean their house. He is accused of using forced labor of children, negligence resulting in serious injury to a student, and other crimes.

Earlier, retired Colonel Lyubenko, heading the public organization “Association of Veterans of Special Forces,” wrote to the head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov a denunciation of the Caucasus historian Hadji-Murad Donogo. Because of this, the latter lost his position at the museum. Tahoe-Godi.

In addition, on November 30, 2022, during a search of Donogo, security forces seized books, flash drives, a phone and a computer with valuable historical materials. He is known as the author of dozens of books and monographs, including about the Caucasian War and Imam Shamil.

It was also established that from 2015 to 2021 Lyubenko provided false documents to the Ministry of Education of the Stavropol Territory about his classes in the Zvezda circle. On this basis, more than half a million rubles were transferred to him as salary. Although no classes were actually held.