The Deportation of the Crimean Tatars – 79 Years ago
18 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory For the anniversary on 18 May, Aleksandr Murtazaev, a Memorial volunteer, talks about the deportation of Crimean Tatars and his own…
18 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory For the anniversary on 18 May, Aleksandr Murtazaev, a Memorial volunteer, talks about the deportation of Crimean Tatars and his own…
20 October 2022 Aleksandr Cherkasov, human rights activist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] For a long time and at great length,…
Mary Page talks with Andrea Gullotta, lecturer in Russian at the University of Glasgow. Andrea is an expert on the history of the Gulag and president of Memorial Italia (http://www.memorialitalia.it/)…
Photo: Institute of the Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2 December 2021 by Aleksandr Tsipko Aleksandr Tsipko is a Russian social philosopher and poltical scientist and chief researcher…
Mary Page talks with Benjamin Nathans, the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Nathans teaches and writes about Imperial Russia and the Soviet…
28 October 2021 By Lev Shlosberg Source: Website of Lev Shlosberg On 30 October, the victims of political repression are remembered across Russia. Millions of people, whose names will most…
27 October 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky, columnist for Novaya Gazeta, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…
22 September 2021 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow by Karl Schlögel, translated from the German by Jessica Spengler. Hardback 220pp…
7 September 2021 By Martin Dewhirst Mark Solonin, The Spring Victory: Stalin’s Glossed Over Crime, translated from the Russian by David Loutit. Independently Published, 2021, 121 pp., £6.50. ISBN 9798519589222. Mark…
Week-ending 25 June 2021 On 22 June 2021 Moscow's Gulag History Museum was awarded the Council of Europe's Museum Prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg’s Palais Rohan. Source: PACE, 23…