“Let’s cover them up again” (part 1)

12 February 201819 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" "For me it all began in the late 1980s. I’d heard that people had been 'repressed', but, somehow, we didn’t speak about it in our family. It turned out later that my mother’s father was dekulakised and sent to work on the White Sea Canal. Yury Dmitriev (1980s) "My … Continue reading “Let’s cover them up again” (part 1)

Japanese daily’s two items about Dmitriev

11 February 201811 February 2018 / editors (JC)

The mass-circulation Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun opened a series of 80 articles to mark the centenary of the October 1917 Revolution with two items (25-26 October 2017) concerning the Dmitriev Affair: "The prisoners who disappeared. Over five days 1,111 people were shot in the forest" and "The historian who discovered where the victims of Stalin … Continue reading Japanese daily’s two items about Dmitriev

Next court hearing, 27 February

11 February 201827 February 2018 / editors (JC)

The Dmitriev case, together with the results of his Serbsky Institute assessment, has been returned to Petrozavodsk City Court. The next hearing is scheduled for 27 February, at 10.30 am. "It is important to come to court that day, to support Yury Dmitriev and to show that public interest in his case has not weakened," … Continue reading Next court hearing, 27 February

“Anyone can find themselves in prison …”

6 February 201818 August 2025 / editors (JC)

"After we'd recovered from the excitement of Yury Dmitriev's release" (see 28 January interview) "I thought of more questions I wanted to ask him, though these still do not exhaust my list," writes Anna Yarovaya. Yury Dmitriev (photo, Sophia Pankevich) "I tried not to repeat anything. I particularly like the passage about his beard: the … Continue reading “Anyone can find themselves in prison …”

“My Work Is To Restore Memory” (Yury Dmitriev)

2 February 20184 March 2018 / editors (JC)

"In the detention centre where I was held, everything strictly followed the regulations: a step to the left, a step to the right—means practically being shot on the spot. My rights were not violated inasmuch as I’m a pliant person. They give me a bunk and I lie down,” Yury Dmitriev recounts. “But twice they … Continue reading “My Work Is To Restore Memory” (Yury Dmitriev)