Today marks the fifth anniversary of Yury DMITRIEV's arrest in 2016. At the city court in Petrozavodsk his third trial behind closed doors on the same charges is rapidly approaching its end. Petrozavodsk City Court The defence is giving its closing statement and then Dmitriev will himself pronounces his Final Words to the court.
Month: December 2021
Twenty-Four Years
A Chronology of the Dmitriev Affair See "Timeline One" for more events & hyperlinks full-screen format 1997-2008 11 May 1997: Death of Ivan Chukhin in motor accident July 1997: Discovery of Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor killing fields August 1998: 1st International Remembrance Day at Sandarmokh. Monument of the Guardian Angel unveiled 2002: Commemorative Lists of … Continue reading Twenty-Four Years
WHY DMITRIEV? (1)
In 2002, five years after the tragic death of Ivan Chukhin, Yury DMITRIEV published the Commemorative Lists of Karelia. This Book of Remembrance named 14,308 individuals -- most of them shot (11,275); others sent to the Gulag (1,958). The task on which Chukhin and Dmitriev had embarked almost a decade earlier was completed. Why we … Continue reading WHY DMITRIEV? (1)
“It’s effing unbelievable” (Prudovsky)
The proceedings at today's hearing of the Supreme Court effectively placed NKVD officers who had engaged in torture during the Great Terror on the same footing as the officers of today's FSB, entitling them to the same degree of confidentiality regarding their identity (see "Judges" and Executioners, pt 2). Lawyer Marina Agaltsova and plaintiff Sergei … Continue reading “It’s effing unbelievable” (Prudovsky)
Sergei Prudovsky vs. the FSB
Whilst we wait for the Supreme Court to continue its hearing of the case against the Memorial Society, and to decide whether it will make any response to Yury DMITRIEV’s appeal (19 October 2021), the court will today consider the case brought against the FSB by researcher Sergei Prudovsky. Thwarted by the Tula and Ivanovo … Continue reading Sergei Prudovsky vs. the FSB
The Dmitriev Affair 