29.05.07 | European Parliament could consider a Resolution recognizing Holodomor as genocide this autumn
The Ukrainian representation to the EU, together with its partners, will be running an information campaign on Holodomor [the Famine of 1932-1933].
22.05.07 | Presidential Decree honours the Victims of the Great Terror
President Yushchenko has issued a decree establishing the third Sunday in May as Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression and instructing on measures for marking the seventieth anniversary of the Terror of 1937-1938
21.05.07 | Halya Coynash / Bykivnya: Вічна пам&#146ять - Eternal Memory
It is fitting that we should be united at this time in honouring every innocent victim of Soviet crimes. Yet while the truth remains sketchy, the graves hidden, and pitifully few details known about the true scale of the Terror and its victims, can we truly speak of honouring their memory?
20.05.07 | Remembrance Day at Bykivnya
President Yushchenko is planning to issue a Decree making the third Sunday in May each year Day in Memory of the Victims of the Communist Regime. He spoke of this during a ceremony to honour the victims of the Stalinist regime at the 'Bykivnya Graves
15.05.07 | Remembrance Day for the Victims of Communist Repression in the Bykivnya Forest
Those attending the annual remembrance ceremony at the 'Bykivnya Graves' near Kyiv include relatives of the over 150 thousand victims buried in this place. There are also many who to this day do not know where the graves of their relatives lie.
12.05.07 | Halya Coynash / If not now then never ...
In this year, so seeped in terrible anniversaries, is it not time to seriously speak of ensuring that our parents and grandparents are remembered, that the earth which bears their remains is honoured?
12.05.07 | Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian émigré victims of Stalin&#146s repressions remembered in Prague
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
06.05.07 | 'Memory over time'
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.
27.04.07 | Presidents of Ukraine and Poland honour the victims of the 'Wisła Operation' of 1947
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.
24.04.07 | Victims of the Armenian Genocide honoured today in Ukraine and throughout the world
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

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