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Read more about the article Remember the Date: On 13 February 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was deported from the Soviet Union

Remember the Date: On 13 February 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was deported from the Soviet Union

Aleksandr Solzhentisyn and Heinrich Boell outside Boell's house. Photo by Bert Verhoeff (Wikipedia) On 13 February 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was deported from the Soviet Union to West Germany, where he initially…

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Read more about the article Remember the Date – on 8 February 1983 the World Psychiatric Association received a letter of resignation from Soviet All-Union Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists

Remember the Date – on 8 February 1983 the World Psychiatric Association received a letter of resignation from Soviet All-Union Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists

Photo of Serbsky Institute in Moscow: Wikipedia by A.Savin  On 8 February 1983 the World Psychiatric Association received a letter of resignation from the Soviet All-Union Society of Neurologists and…

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Read more about the article ‘The wait continues for the victims of repression. Vladimir Putin has been asked to guarantee access to social housing for former GULAG prisoners’ [Kommersant]

‘The wait continues for the victims of repression. Vladimir Putin has been asked to guarantee access to social housing for former GULAG prisoners’ [Kommersant]

13 January 2021 By Ivan Tyazhlov [Published in Kommersant newspaper No 3, 13.01.2021, page 5] Source: Kommersant Over 100 social and cultural activists have put their signatures to an open letter addressed to…

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Read more about the article Remember the Date: 27 January is International Holocaust Day. On 27 January 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops.

Remember the Date: 27 January is International Holocaust Day. On 27 January 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops.

On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops. International Holocaust day is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of…

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Read more about the article Remember the Date: Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident and human rights campaigner, was born on 23 January 1938

Remember the Date: Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident and human rights campaigner, was born on 23 January 1938

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…

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Read more about the article Marjorie Farquharson: Kronid Lyubarsky (1935-1996). An obituary (1996)

Marjorie Farquharson: Kronid Lyubarsky (1935-1996). An obituary (1996)

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…

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Read more about the article Remember the Date: On 13 January 1991 Soviet forces attempted to suppress Lithuanian independence

Remember the Date: On 13 January 1991 Soviet forces attempted to suppress Lithuanian independence

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…

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Read more about the article Boris Altshuler: Andrei Sakharov and our complicated present day, 31 years on from his death

Boris Altshuler: Andrei Sakharov and our complicated present day, 31 years on from his death

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:…

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