“Unacceptable and inhuman methods have been deployed: pressure on Dmitriev’s adopted daughter; manipulation of the child’s consciousness in order to get her to testify against a person close to her," say two hundred prominent Russians who have come out in defence of Yury DMITRIEV, writes Halya Coynash. The authors of the appeal, posted on 28 … Continue reading Child’s life destroyed, historians jailed, Soviet history rewritten
Film school put up new plaques as excavations continued
On 19 August 2019, when the barbarous excavations of the Military History Society were well under way, a large group of students from the Moscow International Film School arrived at Sandormokh. They brought with them 16 unique plaques they had made themselves, listing those shot and buried there, from first Solovki transport and the prisoners … Continue reading Film school put up new plaques as excavations continued
Court turns down lawyer’s petition
On Thursday 31 October 2019, the Petrozavodsk City Court turned down a petition by Yury DMITRIEV’S lawyer for a specialist assessment of the case materials to be repeated. At his second trial, Dmitriev stands accused of “violent acts of a sexual nature against an under-age victim”. His defence lawyer Victor Anufriev submitted the petition 4 … Continue reading Court turns down lawyer’s petition
The Search for Sandormokh (contd)
SOLOVKI From a list to biographies To compile biographical profiles and confirm the information they contained we sent questionnaires to those regions in the USSR where the prisoners on Solovki had been arrested and sentenced. Meanwhile, we engaged in more active communication with the family members who took a keen and constant interest in our … Continue reading The Search for Sandormokh (contd)
The Search for Sandormokh
“Twenty years ago, it seemed to us that Sandormokh as a place and these acts of remembrance divided the present from the past,” said Irina FLIGE in August 2017, at the Day of Remembrance at Sandormokh. “Today, unfortunately, we must recognise that memories of the Great Terror have not become part of our [shared] memory … Continue reading The Search for Sandormokh
The Dmitriev Affair 