In early July 1997, DMITRIEV together with Irina Flige and the late Veniamin Joffe discovered a huge killing field of the Great Terror near Medvezhegorsk in Karelia. Subsequently it became known as Sandarmokh. Weeks later, in early September, he and Sergei Chugunkov identify the Krasny Bor killing field and burial ground not far from Petrozavodsk, … Continue reading Timeline (1), 1997-2008
Trial
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Round Three: November 2020
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
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]
