On the Eve of a Verdict

21 July 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

On Friday, 10 July, Memorial hosted an online press conference about the forthcoming verdict in the DMITRIEV case. (The moderator was Oleg Orlov.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAU6-EODQn8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR04-h2om2AoLu_N39nir9OLSSrAq6UwN5c05KK-pMDVnWRSOpT8Alqp75s In the absence of a transcribed and translated version of that event, here is a synchronic translation into English, ... with an approximate time location, of the remarks by Dmitriev's friends, … Continue reading On the Eve of a Verdict

“Light in the Darkness” (I)

5 April 202015 December 2020 / editors (JC)

This website has already published excerpts from Irina Flige's 2019 book about Sandarmokh: The Search for Sandarmokh. What follows is from a review in the January 2020 issue of Novy mir, the literary magazine (Moscow). "Two themes run through Irina Flige’s book," writes Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya. "One is the quest, pursued across many years, for the … Continue reading “Light in the Darkness” (I)

The Search for Sandormokh (contd)

5 October 201913 December 2020 / editors (JC) / 1 Comment

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

2 October 201913 December 2020 / editors (JC) / 4 Comments

“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

Ukraine’s “executed renaissance”

8 May 201914 August 2025 / editors (JC) / 1 Comment

Acclaimed curator and theatre director from New York Virlana Tkacz and artist Waldemart Klyuzko will give a talk in London tonight about Les KURBAS, Ukraine's most important theatre director, who radically transformed Ukrainian theatre in the 1920s. Kurbas and almost three hundred other representatives of Ukraine's intelligentsia were shot at Sandarmokh between 27 October and … Continue reading Ukraine’s “executed renaissance”