Aleksandr Podrabinek: Mutiny in the Navy
10 November 2024 Source: Facebook Some small but good news for the weekend. Having published Anti-Soviet Stories at my own expense and distributing it, too, I have now recouped all…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europe’s futures, and the dangers of a false peace,’ a report published by Chatham House
22 July 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europe’s futures, and the dangers of a false peace, edited by James Nixey, published by…
Ilze Jermacane on Remembrance Day for Victims of the Communist Genocide in Latvia
14 June 2023 Source: Memorial Society When I was small, maybe eight or nine, I saw a movie, Long Road in the Dunes, and just couldn’t understand why the main…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’ by Mark G. Pomar
5 June 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark G. Pomar, Potomac Books, University…
Aleksandr Daniel: ‘Today’s opposition is much larger than in the Soviet era’
16 May 2023 an interview with Aleksandr Daniel - by Zoya SvetovaSource: Perm Centre for Historical Memory [original source: Novaya gazeta] Can we compare present-day dissidents with Soviet dissidents? What…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: A jokester pulls the wool and the death penalty in Russia
6 March 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Sometimes a small news item lost in the stream of other news can give you a much broader picture of present-day Russian…
Arseny Roginsky: ‘We live in a world of unsettled outcomes’
18 December 2022 A speech by the late Arseny Roginsky, co-founder and long-time head of Memorial, that he delivered on 14 November 2014 in Brussels to mark the award to…
Aleksandr Cherkasov: ‘Life in Search of Meaning: Enlightening Hearts.’ Speech at the Global Peace Photo Award ceremony on 14 November 2022 at the Austrian Parliament
Photo: Nikita Mouraviev 2 December 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov Speech delivered at the Global Peace Photo Award ceremony on 14 November 2022 at the Austrian Parliament Good evening. And thank…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Political Prisoner’s Day and Russia’s Night
30 October 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV When in 1991 the new Russian regime, like an inspired marauder, stole the Day of the Political Prisoner and turned it into…
Aleksandr Podrabinek on the making of bad laws: ‘The ineradicable USSR’
19 July 2022 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda This month in one week, in three republics that were once part of the USSR, three people were convicted for expression…
