Photo: Wikipedia Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (23 January 1938 – 8 December 1986) was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner, who became one of the first two recipients (along with Nelson Mandela) of the Sakharov Prize for…
This piece from 1996 by the late Marjorie Farquharson (1953-2016) has been published on the website Marjorie and is republished here by kind permission. For over 25 years, Kronid Lyubarsky was one of the…
Photo: Emerging Europe On 13 January 1991 14 died and hundreds were injured in Vilnius when Soviet troops attempted to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. Today, 13 January is Freedom…
Scene of 8 January 1977 Moscow Metro bombing. Wikipedia The 1977 Moscow bombings were a series of three terrorist bombings in Moscow on 8 January 1977. The attacks killed seven people and seriously injured 37 others.…
14 December 2020 By Boris Altshuler, director of Right of the Child, a regional civil society organisation advancing the protection of children’s rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source:…
Flag of the Soviet Union, 1955-91 On 30 December 1922 the Soviet Union was founded. On 28 December 1922 a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian…
Flag of the Soviet Union 1955-91 On 26 December 1991 the USSR ceased to exist. The Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a declaration…
The Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the flag of Russia on 25 December 1991, a day before the USSR was officially dissolved. Source: Wikipedia 25 December 1991 – Russian Soviet Federative…