Interview with Vadim Birstein by Dmitry Volchek (Radio Freedom) 1. Is it known today under what circumstances exactly Raoul Wallenberg and his driver were detained, was this a planned operation or an accident? On January 13, 1945, together with his driver Vilmos Langfelder, he was met in the garage of the Hungarian government by intelligence officers of the… Read More »
In 2019, the businessman Vladimir Davidi is planning to open an high-end store in the center of Moscow, in a building with a horrifying history, the so-called Execution House. From 1933 to 1949, this building was occupied by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court that between 1936 to 1938 sentenced 31,456 victims to death, many which… Read More »
On July 20, 2018 the newspaper Novaya Gazeta published a video which created a sensation in the Russian blogosphere. The video was obtained by Irina Biryukova, the lawyer of convict Yevgeny Makarov, who was kept in the Correction Colony (labor camp) IK-1 of the city of Yaroslavl, located 250 kilometers (160 mi) northeast of Moscow, and provided to Novaya… Read More »
On August 21, 2018 Maksim Zavadsky of the Petrozavodsk City Department of the Russian Investigation Committee, completed the investigation of the second fabricated case against Yuri Dmitriev, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Society. Dmitriev, who discovered, with his colleagues, the mass graves of victims of Stalin’s repressions at the site called Sandarmokh in Karelia in… Read More »
On October 18, 2018, while speaking at a meeting of the pro-Kremlin Valdai Club in the city of Sochi, Russian President Putin made a statement about the use of nuclear weapons against Russia: The aggressor should know that retribution is inevitable, anyway it will be destroyed. We, as a victim of aggression, we will go to Heaven as… Read More »
On May 10, 2018, lawyers of the “Agora” international human rights group published a report in Russian compiled by Damir Gainutdinov and Pavel Chikov and entitled “Russia Against History. Punishment for Revision.” It discusses prosecutions against people in Russia accused of “falsifying history.” The study reviews 100 cases over the past 10 years that either directly or indirectly related to… Read More »
In April 2018, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court passed a verdict against prisoners accused of organizing and participating in the 2012 protest against torture and inhuman treatment by the FSIN (Federal Penitentiary Service) officers, which was held in the correctional colony no. 6 (IK-6) in the town of Kopeisk. On the roof of the barracks prisoners put placards “People,… Read More »
The excessive demonization of Stalin is a way, one of the ways of attacking the Soviet Union and Russia –Vladimir Putin, interview to Oliver Stone in 2017 On May 15, 2018, it was announced to the press that the International Foundation “Democracy” (“Demokratiya”) was closed due to a lack of funds. This Foundation was established in 1993 on… Read More »