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Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian émigré victims of Stalins repressions remembered in Prague
12.05.2007
Each year the memory is honoured of those émigrés who, in the first days after liberation from Nazism, became victims of Stalinist repression. Many of them, despite their Czechoslovakian citizenship, were sent to Soviet labour camps from where they were never to return
“Memory over time”
06.05.2007
This was the name of a civic action during which Kyiv volunteers spent this Saturday working on the reserve area “Bykivnya Graves” near Kyiv. It is a poignantly appropriate title since the Bykivnya Forest holds one of the largest mass graves of victims of the communist regime.
Presidents of Ukraine and Poland honour the victims of the “Wisła Operation” of 1947
27.04.2007
On 27 -28 April 1947, the Polish authorities with the consent of the USSR and backed by Soviet forces, began the “Wisła Operation” aimed at depriving the Ukrainian Resistence Army [UPA] of their social base. In August 1990 the Polish Senate passed a resolution condemning the operation.
Victims of the Armenian Genocide honoured today in Ukraine and throughout the world
24.04.2007
Prayers and solemn processions have taken place in many Ukrainian cities in memory of the victims of the terrible massacre 92 years ago when Turkey, then part of the Ottoman Empire, killed between 600 thousand and 1.5 million Armenians
1937 and the present day
05.04.2007
We are convinced that without taking upon ourselves this indeed terrible load of responsibility for the past, we will find no national consolidation and no revival. As one of the most terrible anniversaries in our shared history approaches, “Memorial” calls on all those who care about the future of our countries and peoples to look back unflinchingly at the past and to try to understand its lessons.
Fragments of the System
03.04.2007
Looking into what is behind the attempt to severely punish the compilers of a collection of documents about Holodomor [the Famine of 1932-1933] in the Kharkiv region
Open letter over the refusal of the Kharkiv city authorities to allow a Memorial to the Victims of Holodomor and Political Repression
20.03.2007
It is staggering to see such aggressive unwillingness to recognize the history of their own country shown by the city authorities. Kharkiv remains the only regional centre in Ukraine where the city authorities are flatly refusing to provide a site for such a Memorial
President creates a Council to coordinate events around the 75th anniversary of Holodomor 1932-1933
15.03.2007
The newly created Coordination Council will prepare proposals for coordinating events run by the authorities, scientific and civic institutions to honour the memory of the Victims of Holodomor, the manmade Famine of 1932-1933
Kharkiv authorities against a memorial to the victims of Holodomor
07.03.2007
The initiative to build a memorial complex in memory f the Victims of Holodomor has run up against the city authorities. The chief city architect has decided that a park is a park, and (disputably) that Holodomor affected the region more than the city
For each months imprisonment, former victims of political repression in Ukraine receive a pittance. This may change
07.03.2007
Yury Shukhevych spent 35 years in Soviet labour camps. With first group disability as a result, he is now regrettably forced to use the courts to receive the compensation to which he is entitled
Former political prisoner critical of the motion to open a Soviet Occupation Museum
05.03.2007
The main question, Semyon Gluzman believes, is what to put in such a museum. There are still a fair number of documents which have yet to be made public and which are in special archives of the SBU
“Memorial” nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
02.03.2007
“Memorial” has done a huge amount to reveal the truth about the crimes of communism in the USSR and to have the millions of victims of the Bolshevik Terror rehabilitated.
Journalist travelled around the Russian Far East and beyond in search of Ukrainian victims of repression
30.01.2007
During his travels, he gathered information about victims of repression from Chernihiv and spoke with members of Ukrainian communities in the Russian Far East. In all, he found the names of almost 5 thousand people from Chernihiv who were imprisoned in the Soviet labour camps.
European Parliament on Holodomor
11.01.2007
Polish members of the European Parliament are to begin collecting signatures to have Holodomor [the Famine] of 1932-1933 declared an act of genocide
Criminal liability for denying Holodomor as genocide against the Ukrainian people
26.12.2006
A draft law registered in the Verkhovna Rada would impose liabilityand fairly serious punishment for the public denial of Holdomor 1932-1933
Speech given by Moisei Fishbein at the Requiem Evening ““My People live!” on 25 November
13.12.2006
Eternal Memory to the Murdered Victims of Holdomor 1932-1933
Poland condemns totalitarian regime for Holodomor
06.12.2006
The Polish Sejm has passed a Resolution in which it honours the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine and condemns the totalitarian regime which caused the Famine
On Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine
28.11.2006
The full Law passed on 28 November 2006 recognizing Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people
Verkhovna Rada passes Law declaring Holodomor genocide
28.11.2006
The law passed is close to that submitted by President Yushchenko, however it avoids the word “prohibited” and removes administrative liability for public denial of Holodomor
“Murderers – on your knees before God”
27.11.2006
On 25 November, in Zhovka, thousands of people not only from the Zhovka district, but from neighbouring Ukrainian and Polish areas and Lviv were united in mourning the victims of the communist repression of 1946-1948, whose remains were found five years ago in the Crypt of the Monastery of Christs Birth.
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