In July 2025 Yury DMITRIEV was sent from Camp 18 to the Barashevo medical centre for prisoners in Mordovia for a regular check-up, report colleagues in contact with his defence attorney. While there the hospital director Alexander Yakovlev condemned him on 1 August to 13 days in the cooler (solitary confinement). Dmitriev’s health has worsened … Continue reading Punishment at the hospital
Sandarmokh*
Dmitriev recognized New Righteous of the Nations
Yury DMITRIEV, renowned historian of the Soviet Terror, Head of the Karelia branch of Memorial and Russian political prisoner has been named one of the new Righteous to be honoured on the European Day of the Righteous on 6 March 2024. Yury Dmitriev (b. 1956) (photo, Anna Artyemeva) This is the latest of very many … Continue reading Dmitriev recognized New Righteous of the Nations
“People, do not kill one another!”
Entrance to the Sandarmokh Place of Remembrance(photo, Vladimir Spiridonov, 1 July 2023) The bas relief has been restored.
Dublin Protest outside Russian Embassy
by Crew of the Northabout yacht and other Irish "Grandfathers for Human Rights" On Thursday, 10 February 2022, the crew of the Northabout yacht, which sailed through the White Sea Canal in 2012 and met Yury DMITRIEV, held a silent protest against his unjust and heavy sentence outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin. Crew members … Continue reading Dublin Protest outside Russian Embassy
WHY DMITRIEV? (1)
In 2002, five years after the tragic death of Ivan Chukhin, Yury DMITRIEV published the Commemorative Lists of Karelia. This Book of Remembrance named 14,308 individuals -- most of them shot (11,275); others sent to the Gulag (1,958). The task on which Chukhin and Dmitriev had embarked almost a decade earlier was completed. Why we … Continue reading WHY DMITRIEV? (1)
The Dmitriev Affair 