“Society must become more humane”, Arkhangelsky to Putin

2 January 201815 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On 21 December literary critic ALEXANDER ARKHANGELSKY spoke, at a meeting of the Council on Culture and Art with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, about the pressure being put on cultural figures and the need to humanise Russian culture and society. “If such things take place at the federal level, in the glare of … Continue reading “Society must become more humane”, Arkhangelsky to Putin

“Yury Dmitriev’s War” (19 December 2017)

21 December 201721 December 2017 / editors (JC)

An 11-minute excerpt from Tuesday evening's gathering at Pushkin House to discuss "The Dmitriev Affair". The speaker is historian ANDREA GULLOTTA who met Yury Dmitriev in Petrozavodsk when he was researching part of the same history in Northwest Russia. http://www.rightsinrussia.info/videos/yurydmitriev

Arseny Roginsky (video)

18 December 201721 December 2017 / editors (JC)

The late Arseny Roginsky (1946-2017), chairman of the Memorial Society, talks about the "Last Address" project (26 September 2016) https://youtu.be/91MoStAhYh8 (and see Memorial letter, 16 December 2016, in response to the arrest of Yury Dmitriev)

Oleg Dorman (video)

27 November 201727 November 2017 / editors (JC)

film director and screenplaywright https://youtu.be/UFLeAcW_wKs posted to YouTube on 22 November 2017 (Full text in Russian follows) "Я знаю наше правосудие. И, хотя я не знаю Юрия Алексеевича Дмитриева, я доверяю ему точно больше, чем нашему правосудию. У нашего правосудия в этом смысле "безукоризненная" репутация - доверять ему никак не возможно. Хотя, хотелось бы. А … Continue reading Oleg Dorman (video)