Several pages and 18 posts on the website refer in detail to the Great Terror in Karelia. There are also detailed accounts of 11 sites in Karelia on the 2014 Map of Memory (Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag). A Chronology (Aug 1937 to Nov 1938, inclusive) Sites and victims “Judges” and Executioners [1] “Judges” … Continue reading The Great Terror (in Karelia)
Background
essential reading (charges, defence, timeline, etc)
Publicising information from 1938 “would threaten Russia’s security”
As reported before, the Tula Region Court has ruled that it is lawful to restrict access by researchers and the public to the minutes of the Special Troika, the body responsible during the last stages of the Great Terror (1937-1938) for sentencing hundreds to death without investigation or trial. The text of this ruling, writes … Continue reading Publicising information from 1938 “would threaten Russia’s security”
January, February, March …
When will the verdict in the Dmitriev case come into force? (and the rulings about International Memorial and the Memorial Human Rights Centre) In posts issued, respectively, on 12 January ("What Next?" [R]) and 14 January 2022 ("What we are doing" [R]), the two Memorial organisations described what lies ahead and how they are coping … Continue reading January, February, March …
WHY DMITRIEV? (2)
See Why Dmitriev? (1) On 27 December 2021, the Petrozavodsk City Court in Karelia will deliver its third verdict in the case of Yury DMITRIEV. The highest court in the land remains silent; lawyers from Memorial’s Human Rights Centre have submitted an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. “Child Pornography” The … Continue reading WHY DMITRIEV? (2)
Sergei Prudovsky vs. the FSB
Whilst we wait for the Supreme Court to continue its hearing of the case against the Memorial Society, and to decide whether it will make any response to Yury DMITRIEV’s appeal (19 October 2021), the court will today consider the case brought against the FSB by researcher Sergei Prudovsky. Thwarted by the Tula and Ivanovo … Continue reading Sergei Prudovsky vs. the FSB
The Dmitriev Affair 