Stop tormenting Yury Dmitriev

23 February 202123 February 2021 / editors (JC)

A protest on the banks of the Neva Daniel Kotsubinsky's placard reads, "Let Yury Dmitriev go, Kremlin! You've tormented him enough!" He stands in St Petersburg in front of one of Mikhail Shemyakin's two sphinxes, creatures displaying a woman's face to the roadside, a grinning skull on the side facing the Kresty Prison across the … Continue reading Stop tormenting Yury Dmitriev

Next stop, Moscow?

22 February 20216 April 2021 / editors (JC)

The Petersburg ruling On Tuesday 16 February the Third Cassation Court in St Petersburg heard Yury DMITRIEV’s appeal against the ruling of the High Court of Karelia. The court did not uphold the appeal and left unchanged the harsh sentence of 13 years in a strict-regime penal colony. As Memorial reported, the consuls of Poland … Continue reading Next stop, Moscow?

A solitary protest in Petrozavodsk

7 February 20217 February 2021 / editors (JC)

Saturday, 6 February 2021 Despite a daytime temperature of minus 16 degrees Centigrade, Vladimir Malegin went and stood at the University bus stop on Student Boulevard in Petrozavodsk, a solitary picket in support of Yury DMITRIEV. Malegin's placard reads: "Freedom for the political prisoner Dmitriev!" Someone sitting in a vehicle parked by the main building … Continue reading A solitary protest in Petrozavodsk

A wonderful person, a wonderful historian

8 January 202118 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On 3 January 2021 Mikhail ROGACHOV passed away in St Petersburg. He created "the best Book of Remembrance in Russia, the Komi Republic’s “Repentance” Martyrology," commented Anatoly Razumov and referred to his deceased colleague as "A wonderful person, a wonderful historian." Mikhail ROGACHOV (born Riga 1952; died 2021 of Covid-19 in Kronstadt hospital) Razumov continued: … Continue reading A wonderful person, a wonderful historian