A new assessment of the photographs of YURY DMITRIEV’s foster daughter was scheduled by the court: the photos constitute the main evidence against the head of the Memorial Society in Karelia. Yesterday, during the interval in the proceedings at this famous case, Dmitriev’s defence attorney VICTOR ANUFRIEV announced to waiting journalists that the new forensic … Continue reading Photos not pornographic, say new forensic experts
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Dmitriev and Orwell
On Tuesday, 26 December, we were waiting for two reports: one about what happened that day at the Petrozavodsk City Court; the other, an account of a recent investigation into the new row over who is buried at Sandarmokh, and how they died. An excerpt from a long interview with MARIA KARP on Radio Svoboda … Continue reading Dmitriev and Orwell
“Yury Dmitriev’s War” (19 December 2017)
An 11-minute excerpt from Tuesday evening's gathering at Pushkin House to discuss "The Dmitriev Affair". The speaker is historian ANDREA GULLOTTA who met Yury Dmitriev in Petrozavodsk when he was researching part of the same history in Northwest Russia. http://www.rightsinrussia.info/videos/yurydmitriev
Arseny Roginsky (video)
The late Arseny Roginsky (1946-2017), chairman of the Memorial Society, talks about the "Last Address" project (26 September 2016) https://youtu.be/91MoStAhYh8 (and see Memorial letter, 16 December 2016, in response to the arrest of Yury Dmitriev)
“The Dmitriev Affair – What Next?”
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017, there will be a discussion at Pushkin House (London, WC1A 2TA) of 21st-century Russia's unexpected cause célèbre, the arrest and prosecution of historian YURY DMITRIEV. The event begins at 7.30 pm. The next hearing of Dmitriev's case at the Petrozavodsk City Court is scheduled for 26-27 December. His latest term … Continue reading “The Dmitriev Affair – What Next?”
The Dmitriev Affair 