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Moscow pays tribute to the victims of political reprisals

Press Release
October 29, 2009

Today on October 29, 2009, on the eve of the Victims of Political Reprisals Memory Day the action Returning of the Names has started in Moscow. Moscovites pay tribute to the victims of the Great Terror by the Solovetsky Stone at Lubyanka Square. The participants of the rally read out loud the lists of the killed with the names, professions and the execution date.

YABLOKO’s leaders deputy head of the Moscow YABLOKO Eugeni Bunimovich, members of Political Council Grigory Yavlinsky, Viktor Sheinis, Sergei Ivanenko and Boris Misnik, leader of the Green Russia faction and member of the Political Committee Alexei Yablokov, members of YABLOKO’s Bureau Valery Borschyov and Valery Goryachev, head of the gender faction Galina Mikhalyova, leaders of the Youth YABLOKO and party activists also participated in the action.

YABLOKO’s activists read out names of the executed, laid flowers and lit candles in memory of the victims of political reprisals.

The organiser of the action - the Memorial human rights society – have been holding excursions to the places connected with the history of political reprisals the Military Panel of the Supreme Court, Political Red Cross, the Government House (museum of the House on the Embankment), Ivanovsky monastry (former concentration camp) and the House of Political Convicts.

The action will last until 10 p.m., everyone can participate.

 

See photographs at the Moscow YABLOKO web-site

 

See also:
Human Rights

Press Release

October 29, 2009