Dmitriev: “It’s normal to be persecuted” (December 2021)

29 December 20213 January 2022 / editors (JC)

Before sentence was again passed in Petrozavodsk, and demands for the closure of Memorial were heard in Moscow, Yury DMITRIEV replied to questions from Anna Yarovaya, who published some of the earliest articles about the Karelian researcher. They communicated via the Letters service of the Federal Penal Agency; she did not receive replies to many … Continue reading Dmitriev: “It’s normal to be persecuted” (December 2021)

13 years imprisonment: “The triumph of evil”

29 September 20202 September 2021 / editors (JC)

Sever Real report by Anna Yarovaya and Yelena Vladykina The High Court of Karelia has annulled the verdict passed earlier on Yury DMITRIEV by the Petrozavodsk City Court and in place of three years and six months has sentenced him to 13 years imprisonment. “This is the triumph of evil,” wrote journalist Victoria Ivleva. “13 … Continue reading 13 years imprisonment: “The triumph of evil”

Sergei Koltyrin has died

2 April 202013 December 2020 / editors (JC)

The former director of the Medvezhegorsk City Museum, Sergei KOLTYRIN, died yesterday in the town's prison hospital. His brother Vladimir passed the news to the Sever.Realii website. "He died last night," said Koltyrin's brother. "He had cancer. That's all I can tell you. He wasn't in the ordinary hospital but the other one and, as … Continue reading Sergei Koltyrin has died

Moscow’s “Restoring the Names” (2018) in question

21 October 201814 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On Friday 19 October, the Moscow city authorities suddenly withdrew permission to hold this year’s ceremony in its traditional location, next to FSB headquarters, claiming that ongoing construction and restoration work made the site unsuitable. 29 October 2017, Lubyanka Square, Moscow For the last 11 years the ceremony of Restoring the Names has been held … Continue reading Moscow’s “Restoring the Names” (2018) in question

“Time may pass – the memory remains”

8 October 201816 December 2020 / editors (JC)

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”