Moscow
"A shame!"
In the courtroom of the Supreme Court in Moscow, supporters of the NGO Memorial let out their anger.
In Povarskaya Street, the shock wave reached the group of sympathizers who gathered around the Court, as in previous hearings.
After a short deliberation, the verdict had just fallen: Memorial will indeed be dissolved.
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An outcome which, of course, was hardly in doubt: the Attorney General of Russia himself had asked, in November, for the outright liquidation of an organization that has become more and more embarrassing in recent months, in a context of widespread repression against dissonant voices.
Nevertheless, the dismantling of Memorial remains a small earthquake for the civil society engaged in Russia.
Because Memorial International is a tutelary institution there, in these liberal circles but not only.
Founded in January 1989 in full Glasnost, in a surge of transparency, aiming at the dark side ...
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