Gulag Historian Yury Dmitriyev Hit With New Charges

Investigators in northern Russia have launched a new case against a prominent historian and human rights activist famous for exposing mass killings from the Stalin era. Yury Dmitriyev was arrested by traffic police late on Wednesday in Russia’s northern republic of Karelia. State prosecutors have accused the head of the Memorial human rights group of child pornography charges in an ongoing case th

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6/28 TASS news agency said Dmitriyev had violated the terms of his travel restrictions, citing an unnamed law enforcement source. A state-run television report alleged that Dmitriyev had been planning to flee to Poland. But Klodt said her father had left Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, to visi