Were 2018 excavations at Sandarmokh legal?

13 March 201918 August 2025 / editors (JC) / 1 Comment

As the prosecution continues to present its evidence of "new offences" by Yury DMITRIEV at his second trial in the Petrozavodsk City Court in Karelia, a related dispute is being pursued at the national level over the identity of those executed and buried at Sandarmokh. In early February, the Kommersant daily newspaper reported on this … Continue reading Were 2018 excavations at Sandarmokh legal?

A 63rd birthday in detention

28 January 201913 December 2020 / editors (JC)

The day before his 62nd birthday, last year, Yury DMITRIEV was released from detention and could spend the day with friends and family. This year, as his second trial continues, he is remanded in custody at Detention Centre No 1 in Petrozavodsk. One-person picket outside Presidential Administration in Moscow, 28 January 2019. https://youtu.be/P173kIw5WTA

“200 indecent questions”

24 January 201926 November 2021 / editors (JC) / 1 Comment

In summer 2018 further charges of forced sexual acts against his daughter Natasha were brought against Dmitriev. These accusations are based on new testimony by Natasha and her grandmother, neither of whom testified against Dmitriev during the first trial. Victor M. Anufriev After the second trial began, Yury Dmitriev’s lawyer, Victor Anufriev, was interviewed by … Continue reading “200 indecent questions”

The Ordeal resumes

19 October 201815 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On Friday, 19 October 2018, the first hearing in Yury DMITRIEV’s second trial takes place. He will be represented, once again, by Victor Anufriev. At his defence lawyer’s insistence, both the charges against Dmitriev, the old and the new, will be heard as part of the same proceedings. Yury Dmitriev is re-arrested in June 2018 … Continue reading The Ordeal resumes

“Time may pass – the memory remains”

8 October 201816 December 2020 / editors (JC)

One of the last interviews Sergei KOLTYRIN, the arrested director of the Medvezhegorsk district museum, gave was to Nastoyashchee vremya, the online TV channel: https://www.currenttime.tv/a/29525989.html (Excerpts from a longer text on the website) "The death of a person’s reputation is perhaps worse than being actually murdered. After such allegations, the person carries on but with … Continue reading “Time may pass – the memory remains”