historic archives seized by Russian police in St. Petersburg

[Slava Paperno]

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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