Aleksandr Chernyshov, the chief of the Memorial human right group's successor entity, the Center of Historic Memory, has been detained in the Russian city of Perm on a charge of "attempted smuggling of cultural artifacts." Perm's Lenin district court ruled on May 22 that Chernyshov must stay in pretrial detention at least until July 11. Chernyshov is accused of attempting to transfer Memorial's archives to Germany. The authorities ordered the archives to be transferred to Moscow after the group was liquidated in February 2022. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.