Memorial Day is outlawed?

Police began checking the stock on Solovki

The administration of the village of Solovetsky in the Arkhangelsk region turned to the police with a request to check the days of the memory of the victims of the Soviet terror and the Gulag, which have been held for 29 years, for a violation of the law on mass events. This was reported to the “Novaya Gazeta” by the human rights activist, a member of the St. Petersburg branch of Memorial and a regular participant in the action of Alexander Krylenkov.

She said that the organizers of the action, as in previous years, sent invitations to the local authorities to take part in the event. The same invitation was sent to the director of the Solovetsky Museum Vladimir Shutov. It was it, according to Krylenkova, that became the basis for a police check.

“We always sent invitations to all Solovetsky authorities. Sometimes these days of memory were spent together with the museum, sometimes separately. Both the administration and the museum did not take part in the action this time, ”said the interlocutor.

The day after the promotion ( it took place on August 7th. - Ed. ) The district police captain A.A. Karpov came to the hotel in the late evening, where the organizers of the memory days stopped, and conducted a survey. According to Krylenkova, the survey lasted from eight o’clock in the evening by local time until midnight and ended in the police department. At the same time, the agenda appeared in the department was compiled directly in the hotel: the district police officer wrote it by hand on a regular piece of paper.

“The agenda did not have legal force, but we considered it important and necessary to express our position on this issue and therefore agreed to appear at the survey,” the interlocutor explained.

Krylenkova added that the police officer had in the hands of an invitation, which the organizers sent the director of the Solovetsky Museum.

“The authorities can try to do something with memory, but memory is such a thing with which it is difficult to do something. We trained 30 years, we will ride. And what to do with us to solve it to them. Our business is to conduct rallies in the memory of victims of repression, ”the interlocutor concluded.

In the administration of the village of Solovetsky Novo Gazeta, they could not promptly comment on the situation, citing the fact that the head of the village is on the departure. The Novaya also sent a request to the Directorate of the Solovetsky Museum.

A few days earlier, the action of the memory of the victims of repression took place at the site of the mass execution and burial of prisoners in Sandarmokh. For the first time, the chairman of the Karelian Memorial, historian Yuri Dmitriev, who discovered this shot training ground, was not present at the memory of memory. He is now in a pre -trial detention center, while the court is considering the absurd case on his accusing pornography.