The Russian authorities have carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, writes Halya Coynash on the website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG). Orlov protest in central Moscow (2022)"A crazed Putin is pushing the world towards nuclear war" Veteran activist and Memorial co-chairman Oleg … Continue reading Memorial raided, Oleg Orlov charged (March 2023)
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A concentration camp for Karelia’s children
(see 24 November update, below) “Putin has given the children of Karelia not a summer camp or a sanatorium (none remain in the republic), nor a polyclinic for children -- not one has been built during the past 20 years -- but a concentration camp,” writes Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko deputy in the Karelian republic’s legislative … Continue reading A concentration camp for Karelia’s children
Finnish archive rejects Russia’s “new hypothesis”
Soviet prisoners of war were not buried in Sandarmokh, according to information held by Finland’s National Archive. Recently it has been asserted in Russia that hundreds of Soviet POWs, executed by the Finns during the Continuation War (1941-1944), were buried at Sandarmokh in eastern Karelia (the Republic of Karelia in the Russian Federation). The Russian … Continue reading Finnish archive rejects Russia’s “new hypothesis”
Excavations in the heart of Sandarmokh
Memorial observers monitor the activities of the Russian Military History Society I can't look calmly at this photo. In the very heart of Sandarmokh, between commemorative stones and plaques on the trees, they are now digging up the graves. I have one question. If someone came along and started digging up a memorial to the … Continue reading Excavations in the heart of Sandarmokh
Barbaric excavations again under way at Sandarmokh
New excavations are underway at the Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia which holds the last remains of thousands of victims of the Great Terror of 1937-1938, writes Halya Coynash. Any pretence that the excavations by a body linked to the Russian Minister of Culture are not aimed at rewriting history has been dispelled by a letter … Continue reading Barbaric excavations again under way at Sandarmokh
The Dmitriev Affair 