The latest hearing in the case of Yury Dmitriev took place on Wednesday 25 October although all had been warned on Tuesday that there would be no judicial hearing on 25th. The court decided that the hearing would resume on Wednesday, 29 November 2017. The reason for this postponement was that the expert assessment of … Continue reading Analysis of photos not ready — next hearing, 29 November
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Leonid Weintraub (video)
Art Specialist https://youtu.be/gmbnT1UOVvw
Andrei Makarevich (video)
Leader of the Time Machine band https://youtu.be/JNNNdXAyZJo "Perhaps Yury Dmitriev is not the easiest of people but that's no reason to lock him up. I ask that everything be done to restore the situation to something resembling normality. At the moment it reminds me of a madhouse."
“Abandon all hope …”
For decades the killing fields of the Stalin regime remained unmarked and abandoned, the only clues to their presence being that all the trees were of the same age, unlike a natural forest or grove, and the distinctive outlines of the burial pits, though these were fast disappearing beneath the undergrowth ... People knew or … Continue reading “Abandon all hope …”
Deaths on the White Sea Canal, 1931-1933
According to official figures, during the construction of Belomor, the White Sea Canal, 2.24% of the prisoners in the BelBaltlag camp complex died in 1931 (1,438 persons), 2.03% died in 1932 (2,010 persons) and in 1933, due to famine in the USSR and the rapidly approaching deadline to finish the project, 10.56% of the prison … Continue reading Deaths on the White Sea Canal, 1931-1933
The Dmitriev Affair 