Thousands of people came to the mourning meeting at Lubyanka square in Moscow on October 30, 2003, on the Memorial Day of the Victims of Political Repressions.

Mourning meeting on the Memorial Day of the Victims of Political Repressions by the Solovetsky Stone at Lubyanka square, Moscow, October 30,2003.
Photo by Sergei Loktionov.

Representatives of human rights and historical-educational associations, including human rights activist Sergei Kovalyov, Director of the State Museum of the History of the Gulag Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, chairman of the human rights centre Memorial Oleg Orlov and others made speeches near the Solovetsky Stone installed at Lubyanka square 12 years ago in memory of those who died in the Gulag.

Speakers did not only mourn and express their sorrow for the talented and bright people murdered by the state terror. They also called for a dignified life for Former victims.

At the end of the mourning meeting flowers were laid on the Solovetsky Stone by representatives of foreign embassies, the executive authorities and public organisations, as well as former political prisoners and participants in the meeting.

For the YABLOKO faction the wreath was laid by Griogry Yavlinsky and Sergei Ivanenko.

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