“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 (3 November 2017)

Sandarmokh memorial cemetery (photo – Hester den Boer)