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An account in English for Memorial friends around the world! Please follow us and retweet! keep in touch press @memo .ru

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Memorial's statement on the exchange of prisoners. On August 1, we waited with bated breath for news - and now what was very hard to believe has become a reality: the world-famous Russian political prisoners, among them our colleague and fellow Memorial member Oleg Orlov, have
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We decided to create an account in English especially for our foreign friends! Follow us and retweet
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The Nobel Peace Prize given to Memorial
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❗️Oleg Orlov’s condition is worsening. He reported that he is losing hearing.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️Search underway in the office of International Memorial in Moscow @MemorialMoscow
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⚡️ Memorial will soon lose its office facility (thread)
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❗️Moscou : About an hour ago searches began at the homes of at least six Memorial @Общество Мемориал staff members The searches are part of an investigation into the "rehabilitation of Nazism" recently reported in some media.
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We will see each other again. We will come back, and Russia will be free. Yours, Memorial❤️
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Today is the second court hearing in the case of Oleg Orlov. The co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Defence Center is accused of "repeatedly discrediting the army" (part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) We are going to make the text-streaming about the court
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Dear George, sorry to bother you - but maybe you're fancy to be Oleg Orlov's defense witness? @GeorgeLucasILM
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Lawyer asks about references in expert's conclusion. The list of sources includes Wikipedia and Star Wars. Kryukova speaks vaguely about the Dark Side and the Light Side.
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The war unleashed against Ukraine by Putin's regime is a crime against peace and humanity. This war will remain a shameful chapter in the Russian history. We are against the war with Ukraine and demand an immediate end to the military actions.
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Lev Rubinstein has passed away. He was a poet, a classic of the Moscow conceptualist movement, a free citizen, an empathetic and thoughtful observer and a sharp descriptionist of several eras Russia has gone through in his life.
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Today, on Oleg Orlov’s 71st birthday, which he celebrates in prison for denouncing Russia’s war against Ukraine, the OHCHR published a press release, calling his trial an abuse of the legal system for political purposes.
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⚡️Chairman of the Civil Assistance Committee Svetlana Gannushkina was detained near the Teatralnaya metro station in Moscow. The police take her to the station. Today is her 80 years birthday
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The last court hearing on the Memorial's dissolution is about to take place in Moscow.
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Heavy police forces simultaneously raiding the Moscow offices of the human rights organizations @MemorialMoscow and @CivicAssistance
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⚡️Oleg Orlov, a member of the Council of the Memorial Human Rights Center @hrc_memorial and the head of our Hot Spots Program, was detained at Manezhnaya sq. It is 3 PM in Moscow and more than 1000 persons already detained today in anti-war rallies all over Russia ( @OvdInfo )
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Today at 10:00 am (GMT +3), the Supreme Court of Appeal will make a final decision on the (non) liquidation of the International Memorial. Of course, we will not leave you without a broadcast from the courtroom. Stay tuned!
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And a photo by Svetlana Gannushkina (80 years today 🎂Also arrested today). On the poster : « Peace for Ukraine / Liberty for Russia »
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A search is also underway at the home of Alexander Gurianov, an expert on Polish victims of political repression in the USSR
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Oleksandra Matviichuk: "People of Ukraine want peace more than anyone else in the world. But peace cannot be reached by country under attack laying down its arms. (...) This is not a war between two states, it is a war of two systems – authoritarianism and democracy."
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@OvdInfo Russian Protests against the War with Ukraine. A Chronicle of Events : On February 24th, Russia started a war with Ukraine. Since then, anti-war protests have been happening daily.
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The return of names takes almost 7 hours. All over the world people read the names of the victims of Soviet political terror. These readings remind of the unconditional value of human life and that the state has no right to kill people.
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On the Anniversary of the Invasion: Statement of the board of the International Memorial Society (dissolved as a legal entity in Russia according to a decision by the Russian authorities in 2022)
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Oleg Orlov's relatives fear for his condition due to exhausting journeys from the detention centre to court. His lawyers filed complaints about inhuman treatment and violating the right of defence. 1/7
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⚡️ Human rights activist Oleg Orlov and former employee of the International Memorial Irina Galkova were detained on Red Square. On Orlov's sign : "1945's USSR = country that defeated fascism. 2022's Russia = country of victorious fascism"
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Oleg Orlov was offered to sign papers and enlist in the “special military operation” - Russian war against Ukraine, in the detention centre where he had recently been transferred.
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Amnesty International recognised Oleg Orlov as a prisoner of conscience. Photo: Amnesty International
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This will interfere with Memorial’s further work but won’t stop it. We will continue working both before the restoration of justice in Russia and after it. 18/18
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The Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate who heads the organization Memorial slammed President Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal” war in Ukraine as he accepted his award in Oslo on Saturday.
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🏆 Memorial @MemorialMoscow winner of the 57th Theodor Heuss Prize awarded today in Stuttgart to Ian Ratchinski, Elena Zhemkova and Irina Shcherbakova - @heuss_stiftung "The struggle for freedom and human rights are the sources of democracy".
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We are concluding the 2023 “Returning the Names” broadcast. The picture shows the Solovetsky stone on the Lubyanka square in Moscow. We thank every single one of you for “Returning the Names”.
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The sixth hearing on the case of Oleg Orlov will be held today at 1PM Moscow time at the Golovin court. Today Orlov himself will take the stand to be questioned. We kindly ask you to sign a petition in his support at . Tune into the live translation here.
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The monument to the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor and political repressions was dismantled in Mariupol. Until 19th October 2022 the monument to the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor and Soviet political terror stood in the centre of Mariupol in a little square.
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⚡️ After 14 hours of searching, law enforcement is taking their catch of the day from the @MemorialMoscow office. Impossible to see what, so many of them.
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Memorial is about to lose its premises
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⚡️For almost 8 hours, the police have been carrying out searches in the offices of Memorial International, the Memorial Human Rights Center and the Civil Assistance Committee. They do not allow anyone to enter, not even lawyers or legal representatives of these NGOs. 👇
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There are no legal grounds for invalidating the transaction, so we see the attempt of seizing the Memorial’s office facility as political and hostile. It’s difficult to expect a fair trial in 2022 in Russia, and most likely Memorial’s home will soon be temporarily taken over. 17/
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The Dmitriev Affair: new screening dates.
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Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism A Talk with Benjamin Nathans about the Suppression of "Memorial"
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⚡️⚡️On May 16 2023, 15 organizations of the Memorial network have launched the International Association Memorial under the Geneva jurisdiction. The association will continue the work and projects of the International Memorial, which was dissolved in Russia at the turn of 2021/22
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⚡️Live-tweet from the court room of First court of appels: appeal against Memorial's dissolution
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We would also like to express our gratitude to those who are monitoring the events remotely, and those who came down to the court to support us directly. Thank you. ❤️
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Supporters are gathering near the Golovin district court to wait for the fourth hearing on the case of Oleg Orlov. The charge filed against him is "repeated discreditation of the Russian army".
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⚡️⚡️⚡️Supporters of Memorial Human Rights Centre have set up a new civil society group, Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial, as an unincorporated association (which is not a ‘legal entity’ in law).
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Varlam Shalamov died on January 17th, 1982. We invite you to join us in remembering his legacy.
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It’s been 77 years since the day when Soviet troops liberated the largest concentration camp in nazi Germany - Auschwitz. It happened on January 27, 1945 - today this date is recognized as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
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Free Oleg Orlov! On February 27, 2024, a Russian court issued an unfair, absurd verdict against one of the founders of Memorial, the human rights defender Oleg Orlov.
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⚡️On February 28, at 10:00, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the appeal of the lawyers of Memorial International against the decision on liquidation⚡️ (photo Alice Milchin)
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Russia tightens persecution of a crucial human-rights group Raids on Memorial, a Nobel prize-winning organisation, mark a new low
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The return of names lasts more than 10 hours. We broadcast rallies in memory of the victims of political terror, which take place in different cities and countries, at different memorials and on different continents. @MemorialMoscow @ItaliaMemorial
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Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial's statement on today's rocket attacks on the cities of Ukraine
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‼️ Our colleague was arrested in Minsk. She will be detained for 15 days.
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‼️ We begin broadcasting the retrial of Oleg Orlov, which just opened at the Golovinsky court in Moscow. Join translations in Russian @MemorialMoscow and French @france_memorial #HandsOffOrlov #отвалитеотОрлова
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Solovetsky Stone in Moscow now
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There is our anti-war festival!!
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Statement by Russian and International Human Rights Group on the Unjust Sentence in Politically Motivated Case Against Russian Human Rights Defender Oleg Orlov. February 27, 2024.
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Oleksandra Matviichuk ends her speech with words: "You don’t have to be Ukrainians to support Ukraine. It is enough just to be humans."
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International Memorial was awarded Hans Maršálek Preis by Mauthausen Komitee Österreich regarding Memorial's outstanding archive work. Thousands of documents on the forced labor and ostarbeiters were digitized in 2014-2020 by our colleagues and volunteers🤍 Photo: Johannes Zinner
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Since 28 February (our abolishment), we have held numerous Acts of Remembrance, large and small, online and offline, by ourselves and together with colleagues from other bodies.
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Oleg Orlov finishes his closing statement: I’ll repeat what I said at the earlier trial. Sure, the law is the law. But as I recall, in 1935, the so-called Nuremberg Laws were adopted in Germany. And then, after the victory in 1945, those who enforced them were put on trial.
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⚡️ President @EmmanuelMacron called this afternoon Alexandre Tcherkassov, head of @hrc_memorial and member of the board @MemorialMoscow to provide an update on the ongoing searches in Moscow and to reaffirm his support for the members of the persecuted Russian NGO. #мымемориал
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War stories will be manifested in nine languages. "Memorial" introduces a new project 1. Hundreds of thousands of people have fallen and are falling victim to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Millions of people are forced to leave their homes, some for the second and third time.
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1. ‍Yuri Dmitriev is placed again in ShIzo (Punishment cell) For five days, the head of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriev, who is serving a 15-year sentence on false charges in the Mordovian colony IK-18, was again placed in a Punishment Cell. Photo by Victoria Ivleva
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On the court wall
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Representative of Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Matviichuk starts her @NobelPrize speech in Ukrainian language. #NobelPrize
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Sunday, Nov. 12 the US premiere of The Dmitriev Affair will take place at DOC NYC in New York.
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Having received the claims for liquidation of the International Memorial, we did not rely on today’s Russian system of justice. Instead, we began to prepare ourselves for all possible scenarios. 1/18
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Ekaterina Schulman is reading names in Berlin
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The court building is surrounded by police cars. About 35 people are inside. Taking pictures is not allowed, but we have our dear artist Katya Guschina doing all the work!
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Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition is opening soon 'Nobody plans to give up' is the name of this year's exhibition. Yan Rachinsky said this phrase during one of his interviews when the International Memorial and Human Rights Center Memorial were liquidated in Moscow.
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The searches are taking place at the homes of Galina Jordanovskaya, Alena Kozlova, Oleg Orlov, Irina Ostrovskaya, Alexandra Polivanova's mother Marina - and presumably Memorial's board chairman Ian Rachinsky.
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Today, January 17 is Memorial Day for Varlam Shalamov, a writer and poet who spent 19 years in the GULAG. He is best known for his collection "Kolyma stories".
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The politically motivated unlawful imprisonment of Nobel Peace Prize-winning @hrc_memorial co-chairman Oleg Orlov is another setback to human rights advocacy in Russia. Please read the new @dw_freedom piece on what may come after that.
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«We describe the court decision as illegal, unfair, discriminating and political.»
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Our colleague Alexander Chernyshov was given 15 days in jail So, at 18:30 Alexander Chernyshov (who had not eaten or drunk anything for 10 hours and had not slept for 40 hours) was brought to the Khimki court after a 10-hour detention in Sheremetyevo airport.
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More than 30 years after his death, Sakharov is again being suppressed – and the risk of nuclear war is again rising. Last December, the Kremlin shut down Memorial, one of Russia’s oldest civil-rights groups, which Sakharov and other created in 1987
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Historian and our Memorial colleague Irina Scherbakowa received the Marion Dönhoff Prize 2022 for her outstanding contribution to the historical self-education of her country and her courageous struggle for human rights.
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Memorial RIC was founded in 1990 by historian Arseny Roginsky and a group of other fellow researchers. For 30 years, the organisation was engaged in research: collecting and analysing information relating to Soviet state’s terror, compilation of databases and gazetteers, … 5/18
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"Returning the Names" October 29, 2022 15 years ago, on October 29, 2007, seventy years after the Great Terror had begun, the first action "Returning the Names" in memory of the victims of state terror took place at the Solovetskiy Stone in Moscow.
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Today is the day of Oleg Orlov's sentencing. We're going to broadcast it live here. As of now, people are starting to gather next to the court in Moscow in support of Orlov
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THE KREMLIN WAR ON THE MEMORIAL SOCIETY: A GLOBAL RESPONSE International Zoom forum of Memorial's friends and partners by American Russian-speaking Association for Civil & Human Rights (AR.A) & Russian Diaspora Council for Ending Political Reprisals (Vypuskai!") Registration ⬇️
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The lawyer Marina Agaltsova "The impression of the court today is reminiscent of a rotten slinky stump with a white collar in the form of a law. Because the court has nothing to do with the law. It was clear in advance what the court's decision would be."
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The third hearing on Oleg Orlov's criminal case will start soon in Golovinskiy district court. It will proceed in room 518 on the floor 5.  The second author of the expert opinion Alexander Tarasov is supposed to be questioned today. We will broadcast the event
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We start the broadcast of the hearing against Oleg Orlov. The queue is building up.
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The Support Group for Freeing Alexei Navalny and Other Political Prisoners in the Russian Federation, part of the Parliament of Estonia has nominated ‘Memorial’ as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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It was crucial for us to establish a steady, sustainable system to work with on commemoration of the victims of the political terror – and among many things we aimed to keep the building on Karetny Ryad street available to the public. 2/18
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Trial of Oleg Orlov will begin in 30 minutes, we will provide live updates
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Jan Rachinsky, chairman of the Board of the liquidated International Memorial, starts his speech #NobelPrize @NobelPrize Stream:
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“Inhumane treatment” during “2.5 years of prison for his peaceful and legitimate human rights work.” Front Line Defenders @FrontLineHRD stepping up for Oleg Orlov.
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Today in Moscow some of the memorial plaques by the “Last adress” were reinstalled. Unknown people tear down them at night one by one, but you can not tear down history. And today we thank our colleagues and friends at “Last Adress” with their small and meaningful victory
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FAQ: The trials for liquidation of the Memorials are over. What's next?
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The program of the first day of the conference "THE HISTORIAN FACING CATASTROPHE" Third Readings in Memory of Arseny Roginsky. MARCH 30 - 31 WARSAW, CONFERENCE CENTER POLIN MUSEUM @polinmuseum Registration
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Perm’s Memorial reports about the demolition of a monument to Polish and Lithuanian deportees in the Kudymkar district of the Perm Region at the site of the Galyashor tract.
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Picture by Nastya
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⚡️⚡️⚡️ The Supreme Court approved the decision to liquidate the International Memorial
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Today the Zamoskvoretsky court held its first session regarding Oleg Orlov’s appeal to recognise his “foreign agent” status as illegal.
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Police raids at Perm Memorial. This morning law enforcers searched the apartments of members of Memorial's branch in the city of Perm as well as lawyers and human rights activists. The police came to:
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