Yury DMITRIEV, renowned historian of the Soviet Terror, Head of the Karelia branch of Memorial and Russian political prisoner has been named one of the new Righteous to be honoured on the European Day of the Righteous on 6 March 2024. Yury Dmitriev (b. 1956) (photo, Anna Artyemeva) This is the latest of very many … Continue reading Dmitriev recognized New Righteous of the Nations
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“People, do not kill one another!”
Entrance to the Sandarmokh Place of Remembrance(photo, Vladimir Spiridonov, 1 July 2023) The bas relief has been restored.
Memorial raided, Oleg Orlov charged (March 2023)
The Russian authorities have carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, writes Halya Coynash on the website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG). Orlov protest in central Moscow (2022)"A crazed Putin is pushing the world towards nuclear war" Veteran activist and Memorial co-chairman Oleg … Continue reading Memorial raided, Oleg Orlov charged (March 2023)
High Court upholds 15-year sentence, March 2022
As soon as sentence was passed in December 2021 at Yury DMITRIEV's third trial, his lawyers submitted an appeal against the verdict. Yury Dmitriev in the courthouse corridor, 2022 Unlike the previous two trials, the court was openly prejudiced against the accused and would accept no petitions from the defence. Victor Anufriev, Dmitriev's defence attorney … Continue reading High Court upholds 15-year sentence, March 2022
KATYN
On his blog about Places of Remembrance in Russia and Ukraine, Airat Bagautdinov recently considered the Memorial Complex at Katyn in Russia's Smolensk Region. A place of burial for executed Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s, it became famous as one of three places in the Soviet Union where Polish POWs were buried in … Continue reading KATYN
The Dmitriev Affair 