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Day: 12 August 2025

Dmitriev’s health update, 2025

12 August 20253 October 2026 / editors (JC)

Today Dmitriev's own update on his treatment was reported on Facebook: he wrote that a tumour had been removed from his back "(but who knew what it was), they are jabbing me with injections and feeding me tablets ... The main thing is that it should serve a good purpose." (quotation from a letter received … Continue reading Dmitriev’s health update, 2025

Punishment at Barashevo, 2025

12 August 20253 October 2026 / editors (JC)

In July 2025 Yury DMITRIEV was sent from Camp 18 to the Barashevo medical centre for prisoners in Mordovia for a regular check-up, report colleagues in contact with his defence attorney. While there the hospital director Alexander Yakovlev condemned him on 1 August to 13 days in the cooler (solitary confinement). Dmitriev’s health has worsened … Continue reading Punishment at Barashevo, 2025

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Students from Moscow Film School (Krasny Bor)

“Solovki transport” Memorial (Sandarmokh)

Dmitriev with daughter Katya at Sandarmokh

Protest in Petrozavodsk

City Court – Razumov and Katya in background

near Derevyannoe village, Karelia (Krasny Bor)

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Yury Dmitriev (2014)

Anatoly Razumov (left) and Yury Dmitriev (2004)

The entrance to Sandarmokh

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