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24/11/2024
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24 November 
1970 The United States and the USSR ratified the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
1970 The Central Committee of CPSU restored the national autonomy of the Kalmyks, Karachais, Balkars, Chechens and Ingush.
1970 Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species - the first edition was sold out in a day.
24 November
1970 The United States and the USSR ratified the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
1970 The Central Committee of CPSU restored the national autonomy of the Kalmyks, Karachais, Balkars, Chechens and Ingush.
1970 Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species - the first edition was sold out in a day.
Supreme Court of Russia passed a ruling to liquidate 'Memorial'
On December 28, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation put an end to the case on the lawsuit against the International Memorial NPO, filed by the country's Prosecutor General. As a result, the claim was satisfied, the international historical and educational society was ordered to be liquidated. Pleadings in court led to the conflict between the representatives of the Ministry of Justice, Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications and the Prosecutor General's Office with the defenders of Memorial, among whom there were the vice-president of the FPA and a member of the HRC Henry Reznik, lawyers Maria Eismont and Mikhail Biryukov, lawyers Grigory Vaipan and Tatyana Glushkova.
The case caused a wide resonance in society. The experts actually split into several factions. Some believe that the verdict of the judicial authorities will not affect the ongoing process of rehabilitation of victims of repression in the country - the organization was actively involved in it. Others, on the other hand, call the court's decision ‘shameful’ and politically motivated.
Representatives of Memorial were preparing for legal arguments over the marking of materials and disputes over its rules. The accusing party believed that Memorial deliberately and systematically violated the marking procedure established by the law. The defendants, however, insisted that the rules were not clearly spelled out in the law, and that being brought to responsibility for the same violation twice contradicted the basic principles of justice. However, during the debate that took place on December 28, none of the plaintiffs even dwelt on the issue of marking the materials of the NPO.
The main accusations against the organization were sounded by Alexei Zhafyarov, representing the Prosecutor General's Office, and related to the appeal of ‘Veterans of Russia’, published shortly before.
The case caused a wide resonance in society. The experts actually split into several factions. Some believe that the verdict of the judicial authorities will not affect the ongoing process of rehabilitation of victims of repression in the country - the organization was actively involved in it. Others, on the other hand, call the court's decision ‘shameful’ and politically motivated.
The organization, recognized as a foreign agent in 2016, has not mark all published materials, systematically receiving penalties from regulatory authorities.
At the same time, Memorial continued to receive foreign funding (over six months, 189 million rubles were transferred to the accounts of the NPO). This is what became the formal basis for filing a liquidation claim in court.Representatives of Memorial were preparing for legal arguments over the marking of materials and disputes over its rules. The accusing party believed that Memorial deliberately and systematically violated the marking procedure established by the law. The defendants, however, insisted that the rules were not clearly spelled out in the law, and that being brought to responsibility for the same violation twice contradicted the basic principles of justice. However, during the debate that took place on December 28, none of the plaintiffs even dwelt on the issue of marking the materials of the NPO.
The main accusations against the organization were sounded by Alexei Zhafyarov, representing the Prosecutor General's Office, and related to the appeal of ‘Veterans of Russia’, published shortly before.
Representatives of the all-Russian public movement demanded that Memorial should be brought to justice, as they found out that several citizens, who collaborated with the Nazis, were mentioned in the lists of politically repressed people.
The speech of Anna Kharlamova, representing the Ministry of Justice, completed the list of accusations of unreliability against Memorial. Despite the long period of the existence of the NPO (since 1987), during which the organization managed to collect a database of 3 million undeservedly repressed citizens, the current legislation of the country was violated and Kharlamova did not find any excuses for this. Representatives of Memorial have already announced that they will try to appeal the judge's decision in the Board of Appeals and then, probably, in the international instances. 29.12.2021
