British academics express concern

18 July 20179 December 2020 / editors (JC)

BASEES StatementThe Trial of Yury Dmitriev Yury Dmitriev is an exceptional scholar of Stalinist repression, and his pioneering methods of locating and identifying the graves of victims have helped him to make a substantial contribution to that important field of historical research. He is a senior member of ‘Memorial’. Yury was arrested in December last … Continue reading British academics express concern

Irina Yerisanova (video)

17 July 20179 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Director of Boris Pasternak Museum, Peredelkino https://youtu.be/pnbmVn_Yb6w

Nikolai Epplee (video)

17 July 20179 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Philologist, translator and journalist https://youtu.be/ZFKMUQLjgNM

How we found Sandarmokh (video)

17 July 201718 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Dmitriev half-seriously expresses the wish that, by his 60th birthday (28 January 2016), there would also be sixty collective memorials at Sandarmokh, one for each of the nationalities and confessions represented there. https://youtu.be/9drECOXHpbE A 38-minute recording made in 2014 (?) in which Yury Dmitriev described a chance meeting with Irina Flige and Venyamin Ioffe at … Continue reading How we found Sandarmokh (video)