The director of St Petersburg Memorial, explaining at Sandarmokh why it is not difficult to organise the annual Day of Remembrance there: https://youtu.be/rzlVbKebFgw
Sandarmokh*
Sandarmokh (video)
Day of Remembrance, 5 August 2017 https://youtu.be/MnbTu_vgphc
How we found Sandarmokh (video)
Dmitriev half-seriously expresses the wish that, by his 60th birthday (28 January 2016), there would also be sixty collective memorials at Sandarmokh, one for each of the nationalities and confessions represented there. https://youtu.be/9drECOXHpbE A 38-minute recording made in 2014 (?) in which Yury Dmitriev described a chance meeting with Irina Flige and Venyamin Ioffe at … Continue reading How we found Sandarmokh (video)
He woke the Dragon
"Over the years of his work Yury Dmitriev became not only a splendid field researcher. He also became unique and unsurpassed as a kind of harvester of archives," Alexander Daniel (Memorial). This led to entirely unique results. You know the phrase that everyone always quotes, that line of Akhmatova's Requiem – "I'd like to call … Continue reading He woke the Dragon
Government unlikely to attend 5 August Day of Commemoration
Правительство республики, вероятно, не примет участия в траурных мероприятиях 5 августа 2017 года на Мемориальном кладбище «Сандармох». Такой ответ пришел из администрации главы на запрос редакции «7x7». Редакция спрашивала, каким будет ответ на письмо председателя Совета по правам человека при президенте в адрес и.о. главы Карелии Артура Парфёнчикова: Михаил Федотов попросил поддержать идею о проведении … Continue reading Government unlikely to attend 5 August Day of Commemoration
The Dmitriev Affair 