[aaus-list] [SEELANGS] historic archives seized by Russian police in St. Petersburg (fwd)

[Max Pyziur]

This is a pretty serious. I wonder if Memorial's records are safe (i.e., 
on a server outside of Russia?)

For those who aren't familiar with this organization, see if you can find 
any of your lost/unaccounted relatives here:
http://lists.memo.ru/


fyi,

MP
pyz at brama.com

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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:29:59 -0500
From: Slava Paperno <sp27 at CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list"
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To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] historic archives seized by Russian police in St. Petersburg

Yesterday, December 4, 2008, police in St. Petersburg, Russia, seized the 
entire archives of Memorial, a research center that for over twenty years has 
been collecting data on the criminal acts of various Soviet governments.

Here are some of the links with information on this event:

http://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl4url=lenta.ru%2Fnews%2F2008%2F12%2F04%2Fmask%2F

http://www.memo.ru/2008/12/04/Saint_Petersburg.htm

Interested scholars probably already know about the new "obshchestvennaya 
organizatsiya" called Istoricheskaya pamyat' that was created this fall for the 
purpose of explaining and justifying many of those crimes--see, for example, 
this article in Izvestiya on kollektivizatsiya

http://www.izvestia.ru/forum/?id_publ=3122651

(don't miss the 1027 comments from readers, mostly angry ones)

and this announcement of the creation of Istoricheskaya pamyat':

http://www.inosmi.ru/text/translation/244991.html

The two developments seem to be part of the same campaign.

Slava Paperno 
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