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

Sandarmokh (video)

4 August 201717 November 2017 / editors (JC)

Day of Remembrance, 5 August 2017 https://youtu.be/MnbTu_vgphc

Using photographs to monitor a child’s health

1 August 201719 February 2018 / editors (JC)

Paediatricians from Moscow, Grigory Shayanov and Fyodor Katasanov gave testimony in court on 1 September 2017. There was nothing unusual in what Yury Dmitriev had done, they told the court, the photographing of children to monitor their development over time was widely practised: in early 2018 a law would come into force about such long-distance// … Continue reading Using photographs to monitor a child’s health