The director of St Petersburg Memorial, explaining at Sandarmokh why it is not difficult to organise the annual Day of Remembrance there: https://youtu.be/rzlVbKebFgw
Author: editors (JC)
Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017
The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Trial of Yury Dmitriev Sir, — Daniel Beer's review of two books about Stalin's terror (21 July) rightly concludes with a case that has become, to the discomfort of the authorities, a cause célèbre in Putin's Russia. For twenty-five years and more, Yury Dmitriev hunted for the sites of … Continue reading Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017
Sandarmokh (video)
Day of Remembrance, 5 August 2017 https://youtu.be/MnbTu_vgphc
Using photographs to monitor a child’s health
Paediatricians from Moscow, Grigory Shayanov and Fyodor Katasanov gave testimony in court on 1 September 2017. There was nothing unusual in what Yury Dmitriev had done, they told the court, the photographing of children to monitor their development over time was widely practised: in early 2018 a law would come into force about such long-distance// … Continue reading Using photographs to monitor a child’s health
JULY 2017 – Video clips
Video Clips (complete list) Anatoly Razumov (National Library, St Petersburg) - 26 July Alexander Gelman (dramatist, poet) - 25 July (e) Pavel Uvarov (historian) - 24 July Irina Yerisanova (Pasternak Museum director) - 17 July YURY DMITRIEV - 17 July (38-minute video, "How we found Sandarmokh") Nikolai Epplée (journalist, literary specialist) - 17 July Marietta Chudakova … Continue reading JULY 2017 – Video clips