Next week the charges against Yury DMITRIEV will be examined, once again, in the Petrozavodsk City Court. The first hearing in the new trial is scheduled for Tuesday, 24 November (on the court’s website it was announced that the trial would begin on Wednesday, 18 November, but the later date was agreed and confirmed with … Continue reading Round Three: November 2020
Trial
about arrest, investigation and trial – entire process
Another look at those nine photographs?
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?
Natasha “held firm: she did not utter a single unnecessary word”
Irina Levontina, expert linguist at the Dmitriev trial, talks to Zoya Svetova for MBK Media about her work on the case and the pressures now faced by court experts. Irina Levontina Read More ...
What We’ve Uncovered [2]
<< 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]
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]
The Dmitriev Affair 