Petrozavodsk City Court, 27 December 2021
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Day: 27 December 2021
Court increases sentence from 13 to 15 years
Mediazona reports from Karelia [R] that the Petrozavodsk City Court today added two years to Yury DMITRIEV’s sentence for offences of which he was previously twice acquitted.
(photo, Alla Konstaninova, Mediazona)
Waiting for the Verdict
Petrozavodsk City Court, 27 December 2021
About 15 members of the public have been admitted, reports Sasha Kononova: the BBC and Russia’s NTV are filming; the official TASS news agency is there.
This very night
DMITRIEV’s friends and supporters from Moscow and Petersburg and his defence attorney Victor Anufriev are travelling north to Petrozavodsk to hear the announcement later this morning, writes Alla Shmaina-Velikanova.
Meanwhile, In Petrozavodsk Yury DMITRIEV and his family and friends are waiting for the morning. So are the city’s devout old men and women, outside the courthouse door in the frost.
Judge Khomyakova is also waiting for the dawn. Is she sleeping? What dreams does she see? Or is she awake?
The Dmitriev Affair 