On 11 November 2021 it was announced that the Russian Prosecutor General had filed an administrative lawsuit with the Supreme Court seeking to abolish the International Memorial NGO, which was declared a “foreign agent” in October 2016. It also became known that the Moscow City Prosecutor's office had filed a similar case with the Moscow … Continue reading Hands off Memorial!
Trial
about arrest, investigation and trial – entire process
“Our efforts are not in vain”: Yury Dmitriev on receiving the Sakharov Freedom Award
Today Dmitriev’s friends are in Oslo to receive the Sakharov Freedom Award on his behalf. They will read out a speech written by the prize-winner who remains in custody in Karelia. (Photo, Roman Dementyev) Meanwhile, the third trial of the historian at the Petrozavodsk City Court has been halted at least until 19 November while … Continue reading “Our efforts are not in vain”: Yury Dmitriev on receiving the Sakharov Freedom Award
Sandarmokh, Restoring the Names
For six hours on Thursday, 5 August 2021, volunteers read out the names of those shot at Sandarmokh, Karelia's largest killing field, during the Great Terror in 1937 to 1938.
In court again, July 2021
Photo posted on Facebook by Katerina Klodt, Dmitriev's grown daughter, on Tuesday 21 July
Remembrance (4), “No smoke without fire?”
The OGPU investigation of the Pokrovsky brothers in summer 1932 helps us put faces to four names. Ivan was executed in Moscow, one death in the maelstrom unleashed by the forced industrialisation of the USSR and the dekulakisation of the countryside. Alexander was shot four years later at Sandarmokh, a victim of the Great Terror. … Continue reading Remembrance (4), “No smoke without fire?”
The Dmitriev Affair 