“He deserves a medal for what he did!” [1]

19 November 202118 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Over the past five years Yury DMITRIEV has become known far beyond his native Karelia, throughout Russia and around the world. Dmitriev with his foster daughter Natasha, b. 2005 (photo Novaya gazeta) He has received prizes since his first arrest in December 2016, from the Moscow Helsinki Group and most recently the Norwegian Sakharov Award. … Continue reading “He deserves a medal for what he did!” [1]

Another look at those nine photographs?

25 September 202027 January 2021 / editors (JC)

At the High Court hearing on 22 September in Petrozavodsk, Judge Alla Rats requested another expert assessment of the photographs on Yury DMITRIEV’s home computer that formed the pretext for his arrest on 13 December 2016. From Nikita Girin’s detailed article this July in Novaya gazeta we have learned which among the 140 plus photographs … Continue reading Another look at those nine photographs?

Further Revelations

17 September 202027 September 2020 / editors (JC)

In the weeks since the July verdict in Yury DMITRIEV's trial we have learned more about the nature of the evidence and the tactics of the investigators and prosecution than in all the preceding months, from October 2018 and July 2020. In “What We’ve Uncovered”, two long articles published in July by Novaya gazeta, Nikita … Continue reading Further Revelations

What We’ve Uncovered [2]

27 July 202018 December 2020 / editors (JC)

<< THE SECOND TRIAL >> The child’s voice failed to be heard not just by the chairman of Petrozavodsk City Council Bondarchuk, while the court heard the girl’s statement about how much she loved her adoptive father. As for unlawful threat to privacy, the Karelian children's ombudsman Sarayev did not, for some reason, try to … Continue reading What We’ve Uncovered [2]

What we’ve uncovered [1]

24 July 202019 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Nikita GIRIN, 13 July 2020 Novaya gazeta The historian Yury DMITRIEV was accused of touching his foster daughter’s genital area on several occasions;At the age of eight the girl suffered episodes of involuntary urination (enuresis);DMITRIEV touched the child’s genital area to check if her underwear was dry when he could smell urine, after which he … Continue reading What we’ve uncovered [1]