I know a thing or two ..." said DMITRIEV in a letter (see below) the day before the new sentence was announced. https://twitter.com/i/status/1475402480469131267 DMITRIEV chats briefly with his lawyers Victor Anufriev and Roman Masalyov; video taken by Nikita Girin for Novaya gazeta. Dmitriev's words quoted above come from a letter he wrote to journalist Zoya … Continue reading “I’m a tough old fellow …
Petrozavodsk City Court*
Court increases sentence from 13 to 15 years
Mediazona reports from Karelia [R] that the Petrozavodsk City Court today added two years to Yury DMITRIEV's sentence for offences of which he was previously twice acquitted. (photo, Alla Konstaninova, Mediazona)
This very night
DMITRIEV's friends and supporters from Moscow and Petersburg and his defence attorney Victor Anufriev are travelling north to Petrozavodsk to hear the announcement later this morning, writes Alla Shmaina-Velikanova. Meanwhile, In Petrozavodsk Yury DMITRIEV and his family and friends are waiting for the morning. So are the city’s devout old men and women, outside the … Continue reading This very night
WHY DMITRIEV? (2)
See Why Dmitriev? (1) On 27 December 2021, the Petrozavodsk City Court in Karelia will deliver its third verdict in the case of Yury DMITRIEV. The highest court in the land remains silent; lawyers from Memorial’s Human Rights Centre have submitted an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. “Child Pornography” The … Continue reading WHY DMITRIEV? (2)
Five years to the day …
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Yury DMITRIEV's arrest in 2016. At the city court in Petrozavodsk his third trial behind closed doors on the same charges is rapidly approaching its end. Petrozavodsk City Court The defence is giving its closing statement and then Dmitriev will himself pronounces his Final Words to the court.
The Dmitriev Affair 