According to the Interfax news agency, the Tverskoy court said Memorial’s offices in Russia have been “turned into public property”. The offices in the center of the capital mainly house the administrative services of the organization and regularly also exhibits open to the public.
A court representative said Memorial marked its “commitment to the rehabilitation of Nazi criminals”, “discredited the authorities” and “created a false image of the Soviet Union,” Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reports. .
