On 23 June 1992 Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued Edict no 658, declassifying legislative and other acts that “served as the basis for mass repressive measures and violations of human rights”. This clearly applied to KGB [NKVD] archives and the Great Terror of 1937-1938. Yet as Sergei Krivenko and Sergei Prudovsky of Memorial noted in … Continue reading Thirty Years On …
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Hands off Memorial!
On 11 November 2021 it was announced that the Russian Prosecutor General had filed an administrative lawsuit with the Supreme Court seeking to abolish the International Memorial NGO, which was declared a “foreign agent” in October 2016. It also became known that the Moscow City Prosecutor's office had filed a similar case with the Moscow … Continue reading Hands off Memorial!
Legal Action to Shut Down Memorial throughout Russia
Statement by the board of International Memorial "On 11 November 2021 at about 4:30 pm we were notified by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation that the Prosecutor General's office has filed a lawsuit requesting the International Memorial be closed down for alleged systematic violations of the 'foreign agents' act (reference being made to … Continue reading Legal Action to Shut Down Memorial throughout Russia
“Judges” and Executioners [1]
It has been suggested that Yury DMITRIEV attracted the wrath of the authorities by exposing the members of the troika that issued thousands of death sentences in Karelia during the Great Terror or by naming the NKVD executioners who shot those thousands of men and women. Ivan Chukhin (photo) Yet as Irina FLIGE describes in … Continue reading “Judges” and Executioners [1]
Half those shot in 1937-1938 … lie buried at Sandarmokh?
During the Great Terror almost 11,000 men and women were executed in Karelia. In his database Yury DMITRIEV followed NKVD reports and noted that during those months the death sentence was carried out 4,975 times “at the Medvezhya gora rail station”. Sandarmokh monument as originally designed with Guardian Angel This is not surprising. The headquarters … Continue reading Half those shot in 1937-1938 … lie buried at Sandarmokh?
The Dmitriev Affair 