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…
‘Word of the New Martyrs.’ Letters from the White Sea-Baltic Canal
11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory In a video project about the persecution of the Church in the 20th century, students read letters from those who suffered…
This time, though, we are leaving something else—a piece from our (now seized) office with the Memorial logo.
Katyn: April 2023
11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory Every April we try to go to the Katyn memorial complex in Smolensk Oblast to remember the Polish prisoners of war…
Vera Vasilieva: A letter from Yury Dmitriev
14 November 2022 by Vera Vasilieva Source: Facebook I received a letter from Yury Alekseevich Dmitriev dated 24 October which struck me deeply by the contrast between its contents and…
Aleksandr Cherkasov: No one could have imagined ‘37 coming in the guise of ‘41
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,…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Tradition of Special Operations
30 July 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Eighty-five years ago, on 30 July 1937, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR, Nikolai Yezhov, signed Operational Order No.…
Rights in Russia interview – with Andrea Gullotta, an expert on the history of the Gulag
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/)…
Aleksandr Tsipko: ‘Russians are tired of empire.’ On why the Soviet Union disappeared
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…
Rights in Russia interview – with Benjamin Nathans, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
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…
Lev Shlosberg: The Unrepentant State
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…