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
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