A recent post on the website of the Petrozavodsk City Court reports that Yury DMITRIEV’s appeal of 21 December has been forwarded to the Third Cassation Court in St Petersburg. The appeal objects to the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of Karelia on 29 September: Dmitriev’s term of imprisonment was increased almost fourfold … Continue reading Petersburg Court receives Appeal; third hearing in Petrozavodsk
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The Guardian of History
On 22 August, an exhibition opened in the Chamber Theatre («Петербургский интерьерный театр») at 104 Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg about the historian and rights activist Yury DMITRIEV, the man who investigated one of the most terrible commemorative sites of the Great Terror, the Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia. The organiser was Svetlana Kulchitskaya. She decided … Continue reading The Guardian of History
Historians behind bars
On 27 January 2019, Russia laid on a huge military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad, writes Halya Coynash. In a hate campaign, worthy of their Soviet predecessors, Kremlin-loyal media and commentators turned on German journalist, Silke Bigalke, who criticized this “dancing on the bones” of the … Continue reading Historians behind bars
Anatoly Razumov (video)
Their Names Restored project (Russia's Books of Remembrance), National Library, St Petersburg https://youtu.be/kOyLi1s6SGo
Boris Grebenshchikov (video)
On 20 June the Echo Moskvy radio station broadcast an appeal on behalf of Yury Dmitriev by Boris Grebenshchikov. https://youtu.be/tmcx-XYFON8
The Dmitriev Affair 