Anatoly Razumov “Their Names Restored” (St Petersburg) Yury DMITRIEV’s friend and colleague describes recent acquisitions by his Centre and work on the forthcoming second volume of Sandarmokh, a Place of Remembrance, that incorporates Dmitriev’s extensive research on those forcibly deported with their families to Karelia in the early 1930s: From all over the old Soviet … Continue reading “We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)
SLABUNOVA, Emilia*
A concentration camp for Karelia’s children
(see 24 November update, below) “Putin has given the children of Karelia not a summer camp or a sanatorium (none remain in the republic), nor a polyclinic for children -- not one has been built during the past 20 years -- but a concentration camp,” writes Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko deputy in the Karelian republic’s legislative … Continue reading A concentration camp for Karelia’s children
13 years imprisonment: “The triumph of evil”
Sever Real report by Anna Yarovaya and Yelena Vladykina The High Court of Karelia has annulled the verdict passed earlier on Yury DMITRIEV by the Petrozavodsk City Court and in place of three years and six months has sentenced him to 13 years imprisonment. “This is the triumph of evil,” wrote journalist Victoria Ivleva. “13 … Continue reading 13 years imprisonment: “The triumph of evil”
Were 2018 excavations at Sandarmokh legal?
As the prosecution continues to present its evidence of "new offences" by Yury DMITRIEV at his second trial in the Petrozavodsk City Court in Karelia, a related dispute is being pursued at the national level over the identity of those executed and buried at Sandarmokh. In early February, the Kommersant daily newspaper reported on this … Continue reading Were 2018 excavations at Sandarmokh legal?
The Dmitriev Affair 