V to Moscow today, in Day of memory of victims of political repressions, will open the first in Russian Federation a national memorial. So-called "The grief wall" is established on crossing of the prospectus of the academician Sakharov and the Garden ring.
the Monument height about the two-storeyed house will represent a wall with several arches. On walls the word "will be written Remember!" in different languages. The territory round a memorial is paved by stones which brought from the former camps and Gulaga.<"28>" prisons
On the opening ceremony, as expected, there will arrive President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
the Group of the Soviet dissidents and the former political prisoners opposed asopening of a monument to victims of political repressions in Moscow which they consider untimely and cynical. "To maintain hypocrisy of the authorities immorally! ", - it is spoken in the address of participants of democratic movement in the USSR published on a site to Kasparov.R." It is impossible to participate in commemorative events of the power which in words regrets for victims of the Soviet mode, and in practice continues political repressions and suppresses civil liberties in the country. It is impossible to divide victims of political repressions into those who can already put monuments, and those who can be not noticed yet", it is emphasized in the address of the Soviet dissidents and the former political prisoners.
the Letter were signed by 38 people, among which Alexander Podrabinek, Bukovsky Vladimir, Ginzburg Arina, Guberman Igor, Moustafa Abduldzhemil Dzhemilev and others.