Writer, Nobel-Prize laureate
Day: 11 July 2017
Petrozavodsk picket in support of Dmitriev
On 8 July, about fifty people gathered on the Student Boulevard in Petrozavodsk for a mass picket “In support of the historian Yuri Dmitriev and Freedom for Political Prisoners in Russia!” Acquaintances, friends, colleagues, and those who are just concerned for the arrested leader of the Karelian ‘Memorial’ organisation, turned out with banners to protest against the prosecution of the historian.
The Dmitriev Affair 