Dear Friends!
I propose that on New Year’s Eve, this year as last, we raise our first toast — or say our first prayer — for YURY DMITRIEV. May he feel the warmth of our good wishes where he is at that moment.
May the Light shine in the Darkness: let not the Darkness envelope him.
OLGA KERZINA
Moscow International Film School
OLGA KERZINA speaking at 6 June 2017 press conference
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 Library in St Petersburg gathering Books of Remembrance from all over Russia about the victims of Stalinism, the Leningrad Blockade, and the Second World War — 18 minutes
Katerina Klodt — from Petrozavodsk, Karelia. Dmitriev’s daughter by his first marriage — 4 minutes
Victor Anufriev — Dmitriev’s defence attorney, from late 2016 until the present — 30 minutes
Sergei Krivenko — International Memorial Society and at that time a member of the Russian President’s consultative Council on Human Rights.
held online the press conference was addressed by Natalya Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Sokurov, Anatoly Razumov and Victor Anufriev among others
Director of the Moscow International Film School;
godmother of Dmitriev’s adopted daughter Natasha
An excerpt from 6 June 2017 press briefing.
The Dmitriev Affair 