For six hours on Thursday, 5 August 2021, volunteers read out the names of those shot at Sandarmokh, Karelia's largest killing field, during the Great Terror in 1937 to 1938.
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Sandarmokh, 5 August 2021
Today an extraordinary resource, "Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag", compiled by Petersburg Memorial's Research & Information Centre (and released in 2016), has been launched in an English version. What follows is an excerpt from that website's account of Sandarmokh. ============ [...] Historians believe that a considerable proportion of those executed in Karelia were … Continue reading Sandarmokh, 5 August 2021
Russia lodges surreal claim against Ukraine in Strasbourg
DMITRIEV's recent problems can be traced back to 5 August 2014 when he denounced the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of east Ukraine at Sandarmokh during the annual Day of Remembrance. This spring, over five years after since his arrest in mid-December 2016, lawyers from Memorial submitted an appeal on his behalf to the … Continue reading Russia lodges surreal claim against Ukraine in Strasbourg
In court again, July 2021
Photo posted on Facebook by Katerina Klodt, Dmitriev's grown daughter, on Tuesday 21 July
First Discoveries, 1988-1991
The first time Yury DMITRIEV came across the unmarked remains of those shot during the Great Terror was in 1988, as he describes in My Path to Golgotha (pt 2). The immediate reaction since the 1950s was to cover up these bones and skulls with their tell-tale bullet holes. Now activists and relatives of those … Continue reading First Discoveries, 1988-1991
