The Committee on Property and Land Relations of the Tula city administration demanded that the local Memorial vacate their office premises on Bundurina Street within a month. about this . writes The Memorial Society
Tula Memorial received a letter with such a demand on December 27. Human rights activists have used the office free of charge since 1992. Now the administration cites “a significant need for non-residential premises for municipal needs.”
A member of the board of the Tula Memorial, Anzhelika Minaeva, in a conversation with ASTRA, noted that in the current socio-political situation they were prepared for possible repressions. “However, due to the fact that the Tula Memorial is engaged exclusively in its statutory activities, is not recognized as a ‘foreign agent’ and is not prohibited, the deprivation of municipal premises is more likely a petty revenge of local officials, and not some kind of political decision ‘from above’,” believes she.
- In November 2021, the prosecutor's office filed lawsuits with the Moscow City Court for the liquidation of the Memorial Human Rights Center and with the Supreme Court for the liquidation of International Memorial . The reason was numerous violations of the law on “foreign agents” that the organizations allegedly committed. On December 28, the Supreme Court liquidated the Memorial International Society, and on December 29, the Moscow City Court made a similar decision regarding the Memorial Human Rights Center.
- At the beginning of March , it became known that a criminal case had been opened against several Memorial employees under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).