<< THE SECOND TRIAL >> The child’s voice failed to be heard not just by the chairman of Petrozavodsk City Council Bondarchuk, while the court heard the girl’s statement about how much she loved her adoptive father. As for unlawful threat to privacy, the Karelian children's ombudsman Sarayev did not, for some reason, try to … Continue reading What We’ve Uncovered [2]
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End of the Trial in sight
Next week, it is expected, the present trial of Yury Dmitriev will come to an end. There are to be an exceptional four consecutive days of hearings between 4 and 7 July. The validity of the charges will be decided in court. Beyond the courtroom many other matters are of general concern. One is the … Continue reading End of the Trial in sight
Child’s life destroyed, historians jailed, Soviet history rewritten
“Unacceptable and inhuman methods have been deployed: pressure on Dmitriev’s adopted daughter; manipulation of the child’s consciousness in order to get her to testify against a person close to her," say two hundred prominent Russians who have come out in defence of Yury DMITRIEV, writes Halya Coynash. The authors of the appeal, posted on 28 … Continue reading Child’s life destroyed, historians jailed, Soviet history rewritten
Film school put up new plaques as excavations continued
On 19 August 2019, when the barbarous excavations of the Military History Society were well under way, a large group of students from the Moscow International Film School arrived at Sandormokh. They brought with them 16 unique plaques they had made themselves, listing those shot and buried there, from first Solovki transport and the prisoners … Continue reading Film school put up new plaques as excavations continued
The Search for Sandormokh
“Twenty years ago, it seemed to us that Sandormokh as a place and these acts of remembrance divided the present from the past,” said Irina FLIGE in August 2017, at the Day of Remembrance at Sandormokh. “Today, unfortunately, we must recognise that memories of the Great Terror have not become part of our [shared] memory … Continue reading The Search for Sandormokh
The Dmitriev Affair 