‘More than likely, a major criminal case is in the works.’ Vera Chelishcheva reports on how the security services routed Perm Memorial

6 June 2023 How the security forces routed Perm Memorial and are sending its associates under the steam roller by Vera Chelishcheva, special to Novaya Gazeta Evropa Source: Novaya gazeta…

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‘I am concerned and keeping my finger on the pulse’ Perm region human rights ombudsman Igor Sapko on the FSB searches of civil society activists

19 May 2023 According to Igor Sapko, all the individuals whose homes have been searched are witnesses in the criminal case, not defendants Source: 59.ru Igor Sapko, Perm region Human…

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Statement on the searches of civil activists in Perm 

20 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory On 19 May 2023, law enforcement officials came to the apartments of our esteemed colleagues: Nadezhda Agisheva, Tatyana Margolina, Svetlana Makovetskaya,…

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‘Word of the New Martyrs.’ Letters from the White Sea-Baltic Canal

11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory In a video project about the persecution of the Church in the 20th century, students read letters from those who suffered…

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This time, though, we are leaving something else—a piece from our (now seized) office with the Memorial logo.

Katyn: April 2023

11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory Every April we try to go to the Katyn memorial complex in Smolensk Oblast to remember the Polish prisoners of war…

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Free Aleksandr Chernyshov! Statement by Perm Memorial

7 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory We, members of Memorial, consider the detention and remanding in custody of our colleague, Aleksandr Chernyshov, a long-time member of Perm…

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“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Sergei Trutnev 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week to answer his 25 questions is Sergei Trutnev, a human rights lawyer from Perm. For many years Sergei Trutnev worked with Perm Regional Human…

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Person of the Week: Aleksandr Shabarchin’s sentence suspended

Week-ending 6 November 2020 Aleksandr Shabarchin, an activist in Perm sentenced to two years' imprisonment for a satirical video featuring a mannequin of President Putin in prison garb, and who…

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Quote for the Week. Natalia Prilutskaya: “Aleksandr Shabarchin is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for the exercise of his right to freedom of expression.”

Natalia Prilutskaya "Aleksandr Shabarchin is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for the exercise of his right to freedom of expression, and he must be immediately and unconditionally released." -…

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