about arrest, investigation and trial – entire process
For six hours on Friday, 5 August 2022, people around the world read out a seemingly endless list of those who were shot during Stalin’s Great Terror in 1937-1938.
Over six thousand men and women were executed at SANDARMOKH, one of Northwest Russia’s biggest killing fields. I was asked to read some names where I lived and on Friday I did so, standing next to our village sign in Geldeston.
A hearing of the appeal against Yury DMITRIEV’s conviction in late December last year has been scheduled for 9 March at the High Court of Karelia.
Curiously, the old link to the case on the Court’s website no longer works. Instead, you must search for it anew and can only find it by tracking the case number.
In the past the details were concealed. They then become partially accessible: now it has been decided to conceal them again.
Alexandra Kononova
“Dmitriev Affair” page, Facebook,
18 February 2022
“A message to my supporters!” Dmitriev in the Petrozavodsk courthouse, 28 December 2021
“Today I took a parcel to my father and collected all your letters,” writes Katya Klodt. “There were so many of them! Thank you very much.”
Petrozavodsk City Court, 27 December 2021
Petrozavodsk City Court, 27 December 2021
About 15 members of the public have been admitted, reports Sasha Kononova: the BBC and Russia’s NTV are filming; the official TASS news agency is there.
The Dmitriev Affair 