The state of health of 67-year-old rector Shaninka Sergey Zuev in the medical unit of the pre-trial detention center has deteriorated, Alexander Khurudzhi, a member of the Moscow public monitoring commission, told TASS.
can always get out of bed,” Khuruji described the meeting with him. He called the treatment of a sociologist in the medical unit of SIZO-1 «Matrosskaya Tishina» «clearly ineffective».
The press service of the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service replied that Zuev's condition was «satisfactory.» “The necessary medical assistance is provided to him in full <…> The patient is able to move independently,” the department added.
A week earlier, Rector Shaninka's lawyer said that he «has difficulty walking with a stick» and is experiencing «weakness, dizziness.» In response, the Federal Penitentiary Service also called his condition “satisfactory.”
Sergey Zuev was arrested in mid-October. Since the end of November, the sociologist has been in the prison hospital due to health problems: over the past year he had three operations on his heart, carotid artery and leg, and before his arrest he had several hypertensive crises. In December, after an examination in a civilian hospital, the rector was returned to the medical unit of Matrosskaya Tishina.
«He is a scientific, academic man.» What is known about the detention of the rector Shaninka Sergey Zuev
Sergei Zuev is accused of poor-quality research by Shaninka for the Fund for New Forms of Education Development of the Ministry of Education about the work of teachers (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) and stole 21 million rubles allocated for work.
In Shaninka, they said that they accepted two of the three stages of research, and in 2020, when the management changed in the fund, the contract was terminated due to «difficult communication», and the university paid a penalty. Zuev himself also denied guilt.
After that, Rector Shaninka was charged with fictitious employment of employees of the Ministry of Education as researchers at the Institute of Social Sciences RANEPA, which was headed by a sociologist (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).