Historian Yuri Dmitriev is being transported to Mordovia

Historian and head of the Karelian "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev is being transferred from a colony in Karelia to Mordovia. Information about this is on the Facebook page of the "Memorial" society.

appeared For what reason they decided to send Dmitriev to serve his sentence in Mordovia is unknown. A week ago, the historian was transferred from SIZO-1 in Petrozavodsk, where he spent five years with a short break, to IK-1 in the Karelian village of Nadvoitsy.

"Yesterday, April 6, Dmitriev was sent to his destination - the Yavas station. How long the transfer will last is still unknown. The exact location is also unknown; there are many penal colonies in Mordovia. So far, it is only clear that Yuri Alekseevich will be at a much greater distance from his loved ones, friends and defenders. This cannot but be disturbing," Memorial noted.

In December 2021, the Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced Yuri Dmitriev to 15 years in a maximum security penal colony.

increased The head of the Karelian Memorial is accused of violent sexual acts against a minor (parts 3, 4 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code), indecent acts in a relationship with a minor (part 1 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code), production of child pornography (Article 242.2 of the Criminal Code) and possession of weapons (part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code).

In July 2020, the court found Dmitriev guilty of sexual assault, while dropping charges against him for indecent assault, production of pornography, and possession of weapons. He was then sentenced to three and a half years in prison. In September 2020, the Supreme Court of Karelia upheld the guilty verdict on sexual assault — from 3.5 to 13 years in prison — and overturned the acquittal on the charges of production of child pornography and possession of weapons, sending the case back to the court of first instance for review. In December 2021, the court reviewed the relevant episodes and sentenced Dmitriev to 15 years in total, including the sexual assault episode.

admitted tightened - Yuri Dmitriev is the head of the Karelian society "Memorial" and one of the discoverers of the execution pits of victims of Stalin's repressions in the Sandarmokh forest. In August 2018, excavations were carried out there by the Russian Military Historical Society, headed by the then Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. The purpose of these excavations was to confirm the hypothesis that Soviet prisoners of war who were in Finnish camps were buried in Sandarmokh.