As reported before, the Tula Region Court has ruled that it is lawful to restrict access by researchers and the public to the minutes of the Special Troika, the body responsible during the last stages of the Great Terror (1937-1938) for sentencing hundreds to death without investigation or trial. The text of this ruling, writes … Continue reading Publicising information from 1938 “would threaten Russia’s security”
Author: editors (JC)
Portrait
This portrait of Yury DMITRIEV was recently produced by the artist Boris Zhutovsky. DMITRIEV has been in custody since December 2016, with only a brief period of liberty from January to June 2018 when he was allowed to live at home but not to leave Petrozavodsk. The portrait was evidently created from photos of the … Continue reading Portrait
Birthday greetings
"Today I took a parcel to my father and collected all your letters," writes Katya Klodt. "There were so many of them! Thank you very much." Tomorrow her father Yury DMITRIEV will spend another birthday in Karelia's detention centre No 1 in Petrozavodsk.
Sixty-six on 28 January 2022
Yury DMITRIEV will mark his 66th birthday at Karelia's Detention Centre No 1 in Petrozavodsk on Friday, 28 January this year. Yury DMITRIEV, b. 1956(his daughter Katya can be seen behind him) Photo from Inside Story, 13 January 2022 "Ο φύλακας της ρωσικής μνήμης που ζει σε σωφρονιστική αποικία"
January, February, March …
When will the verdict in the Dmitriev case come into force? (and the rulings about International Memorial and the Memorial Human Rights Centre) In posts issued, respectively, on 12 January ("What Next?" [R]) and 14 January 2022 ("What we are doing" [R]), the two Memorial organisations described what lies ahead and how they are coping … Continue reading January, February, March …
