Matthew Luxmoore, a Moscow-based correspondent for RFE/RL, discusses his March 2021 article about an amateur researcher in Tomsk named Denis Karagodin who’s spent the better part of a decade compiling archival documents about the execution of his great-grandfather in 1938 by officers in the NKVD. Earlier this year, the local authorities reportedly started building a criminal case against Karagodin on defamation charges filed by the relatives of some of his grandfather’s supposed executioners.

Read the article at RFE/RL here and follow Matt on Twitter here.

Music and audio for "The Russia Guy":

• Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки”
• Счастье вдруг (из х/ф Иван Васильевич меняет профессию)

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