The court extended the arrest of the head of the Karelian “Memorial” Yuri Dmitriev

The Petrozavodsk City Court extended until June 25 the arrest of Yury Dmitriev's Karelian branch of Memorial. about this with reference to Viktor Anufriev, Dmitriev's lawyer. writes Radio Liberty

The historian was arrested on June 28, 2018. The investigation believes that from 2012 to 2016 he committed sexual assault against his adopted daughter.

According to the lawyer, the accusation is based on the conversations of a grandmother, a psychologist and an investigator with the adopted daughter of a human rights activist. The lawyer believes that the psychologist was in touch with the investigator and became a mechanism for putting pressure on the child.

In April 2018, the court acquitted the historian in a case of child pornography, which was opened because of pictures of the daughter of a naked daughter. Two months later, the Supreme Court of Karelia reversed this decision and sent the case back for a new trial.

Yuri Dmitriev is one of the pioneers of the execution pits of the victims of Stalinist repressions in the Sandormokh forest. Later, Petrozavodsk historians put forward a version that Soviet prisoners of war from Finnish concentration camps could be buried there.

excavations in Sandormokh in 2019 The Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), on the initiative of its chairman Vladimir Medinsky, decided to test this hypothesis and began .

Historian Anatoly Razumov, in an interview with Novaya Gazeta, suggested that the main task of the excavations of the RVIO is to ““dilute” the crimes of the Stalin era with the same crimes allegedly committed by“ others ”- here, in the same place.”