A rally in memory of the victims of political repression was held in Veliky Novgorod today. Rally participants read the names of 105 residents of the region who were executed in the 1930s, and shared memories of their relatives who suffered from political repression. Reading the names of the repressed has become a tradition of Novgorod Yabloko. In 2023, the event was held in Veliky Novgorod, in 2024 - in Borovichi, in 2025 - in Staraya Russa. In total, almost 60 thousand people were oppressed in the Novgorod region, 7114 of them were shot. At the rally they also expressed sympathy with modern political prisoners. According to Yabloko, there are almost 2,000 of them in Russia, including Lev Schlossberg*, Maxim Kruglov**, Vladimir Efimov, Vasily Nostroev**, Mikhail Afanasiev, Elena Paraplitsa, Vladimir Sorokin, and Konstantin Smirnov. * - Recognized by the Russian authorities as a foreign agent, also included in Rosfinmonitoring's "terrorists and extremists" list. ** - Included in Rosfinmonitoring's "terrorists and extremists" list.

A rally in memory of the victims of political repression was held in Veliky Novgorod today. Rally participants read the names of 105 residents of the region who were executed in the 1930s, and shared memories of their relatives who suffered from political repression. Reading the names of the repressed has become a tradition of Novgorod Yabloko. In 2023, the event was held in Veliky Novgorod, in 2024 - in Borovichi, in 2025 - in Staraya Russa. In total, almost 60 thousand people were oppressed in the Novgorod region, 7114 of them were shot. At the rally they also expressed sympathy with modern political prisoners. According to Yabloko, there are almost 2,000 of them in Russia, including Lev Schlossberg*, Maxim Kruglov**, Vladimir Efimov, Vasily Nostroev**, Mikhail Afanasiev, Elena Paraplitsa, Vladimir Sorokin, and Konstantin Smirnov. * - Recognized by the Russian authorities as a foreign agent, also included in Rosfinmonitoring's "terrorists and extremists" list. ** - Included in Rosfinmonitoring's "terrorists and extremists" list.