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Moscow remembers victims of political repressions | |||
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Thousands of people came to the mourning meeting at Lubyanka square in Moscow on October 30, 2003, on the Memorial Day of the Victims of Political Repressions. ![]() Photo by Sergei Loktionov. Representatives of human rights and historical-educational associations, including human rights activist Sergei Kovalyov, Director of the State Museum of the History of the Gulag Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, chairman of the human rights centre Memorial Oleg Orlov and others made speeches near the Solovetsky Stone installed at Lubyanka square 12 years ago in memory of those who died in the Gulag.
At the end of the mourning meeting flowers were laid on the Solovetsky Stone by representatives of foreign embassies, the executive authorities and public organisations, as well as former political prisoners and participants in the meeting. For the YABLOKO faction the wreath was laid by Griogry Yavlinsky and Sergei Ivanenko.
See also: Human Rights | |||
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