A letter from Yury Dmitriev Two days after being sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony, Yury DMITRIEV wrote to veteran rights activist Lena Sannikova. Recently she published an excerpt on the Facebook page of his supporters: “In my last words to the court I said I was proud to work with Memorial. … Continue reading “We shall survive” (Dmitriev)
Month: March 2022
High Court upholds 15-year sentence, March 2022
As soon as sentence was passed in December 2021 at Yury DMITRIEV's third trial, his lawyers submitted an appeal against the verdict. Yury Dmitriev in the courthouse corridor, 2022 Unlike the previous two trials, the court was openly prejudiced against the accused and would accept no petitions from the defence. Victor Anufriev, Dmitriev's defence attorney … Continue reading High Court upholds 15-year sentence, March 2022
KATYN
On his blog about Places of Remembrance in Russia and Ukraine, Airat Bagautdinov recently considered the Memorial Complex at Katyn in Russia's Smolensk Region. A place of burial for executed Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s, it became famous as one of three places in the Soviet Union where Polish POWs were buried in … Continue reading KATYN
Cartoonists and animation artists for Memorial
In response to yesterday's decision at the Supreme Court not to overturn the December 2021 ruling, animation artists and cartoonists in Russia have made a series of short films in support of the organisation. You can watch the films on Vimeo Or in the 28 February report in Novaya gazeta
The Dmitriev Affair 