Vladimir Putin discussed the International Memorial case with journalist Nikolai Svanidze at the meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
Svanidze raised the issue of the developments around Memorial. The Prosecutor’s Office called on the court to shut down International Memorial and the Memorial human rights centre and asked the President to take control of the matter.
In turn, Putin acquainted those present with the facts from this case.
"As for the international organisations Memorial is trying to defend, they are blacklisted in Russia as terrorist and extremist organisations,"he read.
The second problem is that unfortunately Memorial has repeatedly committed violations, and, as the document given to me reads, it did so defiantly. Its violations were blatant.
Finally, according to the documents, this organization defended Nazi criminals.
Putin admitted that he always considered the Memorial to be the main guardian of the memory of victims of political repression in the Soviet Union, but Nazi criminals turned out to be on the list of those whom Memorial considers to be victims of political repression of Soviet political repression.
"Memorial itself should make its current activities fully meet the noble goals that it declared to be the main area of its work and should prevent anything similar to what I have just mentioned,"Putin stressed.
The President promised to closely follow the progress of the trial.
"I hope they will be unbiased,"he noted.
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