The historian and head of the Memorial Society in Karelia, YURY DMITRIEV, will be released from the Detention Centre in Petrozavodsk on Sunday, 28 January 2018, after spending more than a year there, remanded in custody. On Wednesday, 27 December 2017, the Petrozavodsk City Court decided to change the measure of restraint from detention in … Continue reading Dmitriev to be released on 28 January 2018
Month: December 2017
Photos not pornographic, say new forensic experts
A new assessment of the photographs of YURY DMITRIEV’s foster daughter was scheduled by the court: the photos constitute the main evidence against the head of the Memorial Society in Karelia. Yesterday, during the interval in the proceedings at this famous case, Dmitriev’s defence attorney VICTOR ANUFRIEV announced to waiting journalists that the new forensic … Continue reading Photos not pornographic, say new forensic experts
Dmitriev and Orwell
On Tuesday, 26 December, we were waiting for two reports: one about what happened that day at the Petrozavodsk City Court; the other, an account of a recent investigation into the new row over who is buried at Sandarmokh, and how they died. An excerpt from a long interview with MARIA KARP on Radio Svoboda … Continue reading Dmitriev and Orwell
“Yury Dmitriev’s War” (19 December 2017)
An 11-minute excerpt from Tuesday evening's gathering at Pushkin House to discuss "The Dmitriev Affair". The speaker is historian ANDREA GULLOTTA who met Yury Dmitriev in Petrozavodsk when he was researching part of the same history in Northwest Russia. http://www.rightsinrussia.info/videos/yurydmitriev
Arseny Roginsky (video)
The late Arseny Roginsky (1946-2017), chairman of the Memorial Society, talks about the "Last Address" project (26 September 2016) https://youtu.be/91MoStAhYh8 (and see Memorial letter, 16 December 2016, in response to the arrest of Yury Dmitriev)
The Dmitriev Affair 