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
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Prosecution demands 15 years strict regime for Dmitriev
In his closing statement the prosecutor at Yury DMITRIEV's trial in Petrozavodsk has demanded that he be sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony. Dmitriev's defence attorney, in this trial as in that which ended in April 2018, is Victor Anufriev. He will now present the closing statement for the defence. … Continue reading Prosecution demands 15 years strict regime for Dmitriev
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
Ukraine’s “executed renaissance”
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”
The Dmitriev Affair 