In a post today on Facebook Katerina Klodt writes that she visited Yury DMITRIEV yesterday at Karelia's detention centre No. 1 in Petrozavodsk and says he's feeling better: "As always, he isn't used to complaining. Sends his best to everyone and says not to lose heart," she writes, adding "we had a very good conversation."
Month: August 2021
Sandarmokh, Restoring the Names
For six hours on Thursday, 5 August 2021, volunteers read out the names of those shot at Sandarmokh, Karelia's largest killing field, during the Great Terror in 1937 to 1938.
Sandarmokh, 5 August 2021
Today an extraordinary resource, "Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag", compiled by Petersburg Memorial's Research & Information Centre (and released in 2016), has been launched in an English version. What follows is an excerpt from that website's account of Sandarmokh. ============ [...] Historians believe that a considerable proportion of those executed in Karelia were … Continue reading Sandarmokh, 5 August 2021
The Dmitriev Affair 