The former director of the Medvezhegorsk City Museum, Sergei KOLTYRIN, died yesterday in the town’s prison hospital. His brother Vladimir passed the news to the Sever.Realii website.
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The Ordeal resumes
On Friday, 19 October 2018, the first hearing in Yury DMITRIEV’s second trial takes place. He will be represented, once again, by Victor Anufriev. At his defence lawyer’s insistence, both the charges against Dmitriev, the old and the new, will be heard as part of the same proceedings.
Meanwhile, attempts to sway public opinion and prejudge the outcome of the trial are again being made by Kremlin-controlled media.
Continue reading“Time may pass – the memory remains”
One of the last interviews Sergei KOLTYRIN, the arrested director of the Medvezhegorsk district museum, gave was to Nastoyashchee vremya, the online TV channel:
https://www.currenttime.tv/a/29525989.html
Continue readingUpdate on Koltyrin arrest
On 3 October, Sergei KOLTYRIN and Yevgeny Nosov were remanded in custody until 27 November. The charges concern a 13-year-old boy. The Interfax news agency has asserted, citing an unnamed source, that Koltyrin has written a confession.
Continue readingRussia arrests second historian of Stalin’s Terror
It is becoming dangerous in Russia to investigate the crimes of Stalinism, writes Halya Coynash. A second Karelian historian, Sergei KOLTYRIN has been arrested and is facing charges almost identical to those now brought against political prisoner, Yury DMITRIEV.
Sergei Koltyrin
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The Dmitriev Affair 