2016
13 December — DMITRIEV arrested
Memorial Society, letter to Karelian Prosecutor — 16 December 2016
2017
PRESS CONFERENCE in MOSCOW — 6 June 2017
British Academics Express Concern — 18 July 2017
“The Dmitriev Trial”, Letter to Times Literary Supplement (London) — 5 August 2017
Memorial petition, “In defense of Gulag researcher Yury Dmitriev” — 14 October (4,116 signatories)
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“Do not support their hypocrisy!” 30 October 2017 — Former Soviet political prisoners from Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Estonia and elsewhere criticise the Wall of Sorrow in Moscow, opened that day by President Putin and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church
2018
28 January — DMITRIEV released from Detention Centre No 1 (Petrozavodsk)
5 April — Acquitted on all but firearms charge, DMITRIEV must remain within city limits
28 June — Second arrest
19 October — Second trial begins
2019
“Free Yury Dmitriev!” 17 November 2019 — In defence of academic freedom
2020
Petition, “Free Yury Dmitriev”, 27 March 2020 — Spread of Covid-19, especially in Russia’s penal system (15,918 signatories and counting)
PRESS CONFERENCE in MOSCOW, 10 July 2020
22 July — DMITRIEV convicted on only one charge, sentenced to 3 years and 6 months imprisonment
He is therefore due for release in November 2020
“Move Trial to New Jurisdiction” — Impossibility of a fair trial in Karelia
29 September — Supreme Court of Karelia overturns 22 July verdict and imposes a sentence of 13.5 years
The Dmitriev Affair 