Historian Yuri Dmitriev was transferred to a maximum security penal colony in Mordovia

Historian and head of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriev was transferred to a maximum security prison in Mordovia, Interfax reported, citing lawyer Viktor Anufriev.

Yuri Dmitriev was taken to IK-18 in the village of Potma, where he is to spend the rest of his sentence. On April 6, he was transferred from IK-1 in Karelia to IK-18 in Mordovia.

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

In July 2020, the court found Dmitriev guilty of sexual assault, while dropping charges against him for indecent acts, producing pornography, and possessing 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 producing child pornography and possessing weapons, sending the case back to the court of first instance for review. In December 2021, the court reviewed the relevant episodes and Dmitriev was sentenced to 15 years in total, including the sexual assault episode.

admitted tightened appointed - 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