On 22 April, the Karelian edition of the Rossiya TV Channel's "Events of the Week" programme included a brief item, mentioning that "this summer" there would be fresh investigations of the burials at the Sandarmokh memorial complex near Medvezhegorsk. https://youtu.be/oE6QUXuuz60 (For those who know Russian, the item begins five minutes into this half-hour broadcast) Periodically, … Continue reading Disquieting News
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Dmitriev’s acquittal
Halya COYNASH examines an extraordinary case In a step back from the brink, a court in Russia has acquitted renowned historian Yury DMITRIEV of manifestly absurd charges for which the prosecutor had demanded a nine-year maximum security prison sentence. 62-year-old Dmitriev was convicted of a third charge, with the two-and-a-half year restriction of liberty sentence … Continue reading Dmitriev’s acquittal
Head of Museum’s disbanded Gulag section threatened with eviction
Attempts are being made to turn OLGA BOCHKARYOVA out of the accommodation transferred into her private ownership in 2011 by the Solovki Museum administration. On 1 January 2016, the Gulag section at the museum was disbanded and its head, Olga Bochkaryova, was dismissed from her post. Тhe present museum director, Vladimir V. Shutov, who is, … Continue reading Head of Museum’s disbanded Gulag section threatened with eviction
“We must be able to find something” (part 3)
Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" "In 1997 I met Veniamin Joffe and Irina Flige from Petersburg Memorial at the FSB archives in Karelia. We agreed to look for the site near Medvezhyegorsk where executions took place. "Joffe and Flige were on the track of the missing transport from Solovki special prison. They began their … Continue reading “We must be able to find something” (part 3)
In the archives (part 2)
Yury Dmitriev, "My Path to Golgotha" "Then I became an aide to Ivan Chukhin, a deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet (and the State Duma, 1990-1995). He was a lieutenant-colonel in the police, a psychologist. Ivan Chukhin, 1948-1997 "Around that time, it was decided to compile a Book of Remembrance for Karelia. That’s to say, … Continue reading In the archives (part 2)
The Dmitriev Affair 