using this website

15 December 202017 December 2020 / editors (JC)

This website was launched in October 2017. Today it contains over 300 posts and pages. Two days (or six months) ago, the Dmitriev Affair entered its fifth year. Noting a sharp recent increase in the number of hits and visitors the website receives, it seemed a good time to give it a thorough overhaul, improving … Continue reading using this website

Award foils attempts to discredit Dmitriev

15 December 202015 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Russian attempts to discredit Yury DMITRIEV are proving increasingly futile, writes Halya Coynash. On 10 December the renowned historian of the Soviet Terror and head of the Karelia branch of the Memorial Society was named as one of the 15 laureates of the prestigious Franco-German Prize for Human Rights for 2020. Read More ...

Anufriev gives detail of Cassation Appeal

15 December 202027 January 2021 / editors (JC)

At the third attempt the Cassation Court in St Petersburg has allowed the appeal submitted by Yury DMITRIEV and his lawyer Victor Anufriev to go forward for examination. A report in the Kommersant newspaper (14 December 2020) quotes Anufriev as saying that DMITRIEV “had submitted one appeal against all the previous decisions reached by the … Continue reading Anufriev gives detail of Cassation Appeal

The unquiet dead

11 December 20202 January 2022 / editors (JC)

Scattered across the length and breadth of Russia and its immediate neighbours (especially Kazakhstan), are hundreds of neglected or concealed burial grounds. Some 1,800 are currently known; others await commemoration or discovery. Belbaltlag prisoners’ cemetery, discovered by Yury Dmitriev in August 2003 See More ...

“We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)

8 December 202018 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Anatoly Razumov “Their Names Restored” (St Petersburg) Yury DMITRIEV’s friend and colleague describes recent acquisitions by his Centre and work on the forthcoming second volume of Sandarmokh, a Place of Remembrance, that incorporates Dmitriev’s extensive research on those forcibly deported with their families to Karelia in the early 1930s: From all over the old Soviet … Continue reading “We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)