On 13 December 2016, Yuri Dmitriev, historian, GULAG scholar, and chairman of the Karelian Memorial Society, was arrested in Petrozavodsk on the basis of an anonymous denunciation. He spent five months in detention before his case went to court on 1 June 2017. [... ] We ask: For an independent and qualified expert evaluation of … Continue reading Sign the petition!
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Natalya Solzhenitsyn (video)
President of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation, widow of writer and Nobel-Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn https://youtu.be/Lyb-2wDie9Q
SEPTEMBER 2017 – video clips
Video Clips (complete list) Alexander Filippenko (actor) - 27 September Maria Eismont (journalist) - 22 September Alisa Ganieva (writer) - 21 September Alexander Manotskov (composer) - 21 September Father Alexei Uminsky - 6 September Irina Prokhorova (publisher) - 6 September
Petrozavodsk picket in support of Dmitriev
On 8 July, about fifty people gathered on the Student Boulevard in Petrozavodsk for a mass picket “In support of the historian Yuri Dmitriev and Freedom for Political Prisoners in Russia!” Acquaintances, friends, colleagues, and those who are just concerned for the arrested leader of the Karelian 'Memorial' organisation, turned out with banners to protest … Continue reading Petrozavodsk picket in support of Dmitriev
Veronica Dolina (video)
Poet and bard https://youtu.be/Yg6B5oKr3G8
The Dmitriev Affair 