One of the last interviews Sergei KOLTYRIN, the arrested director of the Medvezhegorsk district museum, gave was to Nastoyashchee vremya, the online TV channel: https://www.currenttime.tv/a/29525989.html (Excerpts from a longer text on the website) "The death of a person’s reputation is perhaps worse than being actually murdered. After such allegations, the person carries on but with … Continue reading “Time may pass – the memory remains”
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“Dmitriev will remain free, but …”
Natalia Dyomina asks Dmitriev attorney VICTOR ANUFRIEV what he expects the outcome of the trial will be today, Thursday, 5 April 2018. "Victor Mikhailovich, what do you expect today?" "That Dmitriev will remain free, but the form in which this is achieved could be most varied." Victor ANUFRIEV, Dmitriev's defence attorney since December 2016 "What … Continue reading “Dmitriev will remain free, but …”
“Scoundrels thought up this case” (Chudakova)
After her journey from Moscow to Petrozavodsk to express her support for Yury Dmitriev, the redoutable literary specialist MARIETTA CHUDAKOVA found time to give a public lecture on Memory, history textbooks and how "the present generation of idiots" in Russia was raising the next ... She also responded to questions from the media, as is … Continue reading “Scoundrels thought up this case” (Chudakova)
“I’m trying to finish what’s most important” (part 6)
Yury Dmitriev, "My Path to Golgotha" (conclusion) I first met students from the Moscow Film School, it seems, at Sandarmokh. They had come for the Day of Remembrance on 5 August. As it happened, one of the buses I’d laid on was empty and they travelled on it to the graveyard and back. They were … Continue reading “I’m trying to finish what’s most important” (part 6)
“Dead or living, they’re the same nation” (part 5)
Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" "Sandarmokh means something special to me. It’s where I’ve put into practice several other tasks I set myself. "I’d like the people living in Karelia to feel that they are part of a nation, and not just the population. Belonging to a nation means you know your own history, … Continue reading “Dead or living, they’re the same nation” (part 5)
The Dmitriev Affair 