A court in the Russian city of Perm on April 10 issued an arrest warrant for Robert Latypov, the self-exiled former chief of the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial human right group's branch in the city. Latypov is accused of "attempting to smuggle cultural artifacts" -- namely, to transfer Memorial's archives to Germany last year. Last week, the ex-chief of Memorial's Center of Historic Memory, Aleksandr Chernyshov, was handed a three-year suspended prison term on the same charge. The authorities ordered Memorial's archives to be transferred to Moscow after the group was liquidated in February 2022. To see the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chief Of Memorial's Branch In Perm
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