Searches were carried out, in particular, at the chairman of the board of the human rights center

Oleg Orlov

, the deputy chairman of the center

Nikita Petrov

, the member of the board of the center

Aleksandra Polivanova

and her mother, as well as the chairman of the board of the "Memorial" society

Yan Rachinsky

and the deputy chairman of the board of the society

Alexander Guryanov

.



In December,

Jan Raczynski

received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, which was awarded to "Memorial".

Natalya Pinchuk, Jan Rachinsky and Oksana Matviychuk at the ceremony in Oslo.

December 2022

It became known that a criminal case has been initiated

against the head of "Memorial"

Oleg Orlov under the article on the so-called repeated discrediting of the Russian army.

As it became known, the case of repeated discrediting was initiated through a repost on his Facebook page of his own article "They wanted fascism.

They got him", published by the French publication Mediapart on November 14, 2022.

This is reported by "Memorial" in its Telegram channel.

Today, security forces searched the "Memorial" building on Maly Koretny in Moscow.



According to the association, the search ended with some employees: they took equipment and things with the "Memorial" logos (for example, a calendar and a medical mask).

Some were taken for questioning to the Investigative Department in the Tver district of Moscow.