Barrier environment. Two Sverdlovsk mayors were fined: people with disabilities are unable to access their administration buildings.
The prosecutor's office opened administrative cases for the lack of a barrier-free environment, and the court fined the mayor of the closed administrative-territorial entity of Uralsk. Igor Syropyatov and the mayor of Verkhniy Dubov Valeria Konopkina. The violations were discovered during a prosecutor's inspection.
On according to the prosecutor's office, the town administration buildings were not equipped with the necessary information signs in Braille. Also, "there was no call button, and the height of the thresholds prevented independent access for people with disabilities."
The amount of the fines has not been reported.
Years earlier, the prosecutor's office made a submission Ulyanovsk City Hall Kirzhach for the same violations in 2020 fined city hall OrenburgLast year the mayor Novosibirsk made a submission for violating the rights of people with disabilities: the ramp installed near the city hall was stuck against a pole.
In the photo: Valery Konopkin (from his personal VK page), Igor Syropyatov (from his personal Odnoklassniki page)