Veteran dissident and bard https://youtu.be/ZFzVlhks_D4

Solovki

21 August 20172 January 2021 / editors (JC)

Solovki, the Special Purpose Solovetsky Camp, was the first permanent concentration camp of the Soviet regime. (Its Russian acronym SLON spelled "Elephant".) Set up in 1923 on a group of islands in the White Sea, it began with a mixed population of left-wing political opponents of the Bolsheviks (Anarchists, Socialist Revolutionaries) and criminals. Its purpose … Continue reading Solovki

Irina Flige (video)

15 August 201717 November 2017 / editors (JC)

The director of St Petersburg Memorial, explaining at Sandarmokh why it is not difficult to organise the annual Day of Remembrance there: https://youtu.be/rzlVbKebFgw

Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017

5 August 201714 February 2018 / editors (JC)

The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Trial of Yury Dmitriev Sir, — Daniel Beer's review of two books about Stalin's terror (21 July) rightly concludes with a case that has become, to the discomfort of the authorities, a cause célèbre in Putin's Russia. For twenty-five years and more, Yury Dmitriev hunted for the sites of … Continue reading Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017