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He woke the Dragon
"Over the years of his work Yury Dmitriev became not only a splendid field researcher. He also became unique and unsurpassed as a kind of harvester of archives," Alexander Daniel (Memorial). This led to entirely unique results. You know the phrase that everyone always quotes, that line of Akhmatova's Requiem – "I'd like to call … Continue reading He woke the Dragon
A political prosecution
In February SERGEI KRIVENKO travelled to Karelia, as a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, to monitor the case of YURY DMITRIEV. In early June he talked to ZOYA SVETOVA. *** Yury Dmitriev is a very well-known person. He is an independent historian, the creator of Books of Remembrance, and … Continue reading A political prosecution
Press conference, 6 June 2017
Soon after DMITRIEV's first trial began there was a press conference of his supporters in Moscow. Those speaking and answering journalists' questions were: Olga Kerzina -- director of the Moscow International Film School, godmother of Dmitriev's foster daughter Natasha -- 6 minutes Anatoly Razumov -- head of "Their Names Restored", a centre at the National … Continue reading Press conference, 6 June 2017
New books by Dmitriev
A CD containing two previously unpublished texts by Dmitriev is now available. It was launched in the Karelian capital Petrozavodsk and contains The Fatherland Remembers Them and Krasny Bor. As the Social Information Agency [ASI] reports, the launch was organized jointly by the International Memorial Society and Anatoly Razumov, head of the "Their Names Restored” … Continue reading New books by Dmitriev