‘What Really Matters Is My Friendship With Jehovah’

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‘What Really Matters Is My Friendship With Jehovah’

April 2024


The Avtozavodskiy District Court of Tolyatti in the Samara Region will soon announce its verdict in the case involving Brother Aleksandr Dolganov. The prosecutor has requested a five-year prison sentence.


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Aleksandr Dolganov

Born: 1988 (Tolyatti)


Biography: Disliked going to church as a child. Attended a meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses with his mother. The kind welcome they received and the simple truths discussed moved him to request a Bible study


Baptized in 2000


Married Mariya in 2017


Personal Comments


How have you been personally affected by this experience?


When our home was raided, I was struck by how everything I have materially could be taken away in a moment. After that experience, my wife and I became even more focused on not needlessly wasting time or energy on things of this world. What really matters is friendship with Jehovah and the support of our loving brotherhood. I am more determined than ever to treasure these blessings that will endure forever.


Like Aleksandr, we consider it important to make the best use of our time during the ‘wicked days’ in which we live.—Ephesians 5:15, 16.


Time Line


May 16, 2023


Home searched. Sent to a temporary detention facility


May 17, 2023


Released from temporary detention and placed under house arrest. Prohibited from using the telephone or Internet


August 10, 2023


Released from house arrest and placed under travel restrictions


November 13, 2023


Criminal trial began

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