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All the links are to news sources in Russian.---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Slava PapernoDate: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:29 PMSubject: [SEELANGS] historic archives seized by Russian police in St. PetersburgTo: SEELANGS@bama.ua.eduYesterday, December 4, 2008, police in St. Petersburg, Russia, seizedthe entire archives of Memorial, a research center that for overtwenty years has been collecting data on the criminal acts of variousSoviet 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%2Fhttp://www.memo.ru/2008/12/04/Saint_Petersburg.htmInterested scholars probably already know about the new"obshchestvennaya organizatsiya" called Istoricheskaya pamyat' thatwas created this fall for the purpose of explaining and justifyingmany of those crimes--see, for example, this article in Izvestiya onkollektivizatsiyahttp://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.htmlThe two developments seem to be part of the same campaign.Slava Paperno Source: Archives ListUpdate:http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/12/04/russia-police-raid-prominent-rights-group