To the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Karelian Republic Anatoly Vladimirovich Nakvas On 23 March 2020, Yury DMITRIEV, who is being held in a detention facility in Petrozavodsk, was sentenced to remain under arrest for three more months. This means that the peak of the growing coronavirus epidemic will find him in a prison cell. Yury Dmitriev is 64 years old. He has spent the last … Continue reading FREE YURY DMITRIEV! (Petition)
Month: April 2020
Anufriev interview: “He’s facing things bravely, but hopes for justice”
Yury DMITRIEV's second trial, like the first, is being held behind closed doors. His lawyer Victor Anufriev recently provided his view of the case in the longest interview he has given to the media since early last year. -- the second trial began in September 2018. The interviewer was Katerina Gordeyeva (Meduza). Gordeyeva -- Two … Continue reading Anufriev interview: “He’s facing things bravely, but hopes for justice”
Release detainees before they become infected
In view of the expanding Corona virus epidemic, Russian lawyers are calling for many held by the Federal Penitentiary Service (FPS) to be released. One obvious candidate, almost continuously imprisoned since December 2016, is Yury DMITRIEV. At the last hearing in his slow-moving trial his detention in custody was extended until the end of June. … Continue reading Release detainees before they become infected
“Light in the Darkness” (I)
This website has already published excerpts from Irina Flige's 2019 book about Sandarmokh: The Search for Sandarmokh. What follows is from a review in the January 2020 issue of Novy mir, the literary magazine (Moscow). "Two themes run through Irina Flige’s book," writes Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya. "One is the quest, pursued across many years, for the … Continue reading “Light in the Darkness” (I)
Sergei Koltyrin has died
The former director of the Medvezhegorsk City Museum, Sergei KOLTYRIN, died yesterday in the town's prison hospital. His brother Vladimir passed the news to the Sever.Realii website. "He died last night," said Koltyrin's brother. "He had cancer. That's all I can tell you. He wasn't in the ordinary hospital but the other one and, as … Continue reading Sergei Koltyrin has died
The Dmitriev Affair 