Yury Dmitriev in his Petrozavodsk apartment (photo, Hester den Boer) On Friday, 13 December 2016, the police knocked at the door and arrested the 60-year-old historian. Dmitriev has been held in custody ever since, at the city's Detention Centre No 1. In early June 2017 his trial began at the Petrozavodsk City Court (see Timeline). … Continue reading September 2016 – just before the arrest
Day: 5 November 2017
Stalin’s victims not found; their champion behind bars
"Eighty years on, the victims of the Stalinist terror have still not been found. Yury Dmitriev has spent thirty years of his life seaching for them. Now he himself is behind bars," writes Steven Derix in the Dutch NRC Handelsblad (3 Friday), online edition. "“Commemoration of Stalin’s victims is too political in Putin’s Russia”, NRC … Continue reading Stalin’s victims not found; their champion behind bars
The Dmitriev Affair 