11.03.10 | New Head of SBU wants less work on archives
Valery Khoroshkovsky, the new Head of the Security Service [SBU] believes that the Security Service should reduce work with archives and concentrate on its main tasks
11.03.10 | First 'defamation case' over denial of Holodomor as genocide rejected
The District Court in Novoyazovsk (Donetsk region) has found in favour of a journalist who publicly expressed doubt as to whether Holodomor 1932-1933 was genocide of the Ukrainian people
10.03.10 | Five Transcarpathians honoured for saving Jewish people during the War
The Feyers hid four Jewish people for 18 months, while Vasylyna Plyska's family fgave shelter to four Jews. A Jewish boy hid for over 7 months with the family of Petro Yurashchuk from Vyshkiv, and the family of Maria Shutko from Khust saved the lives of two Jewish people who had escaped from a Hungarian concentration camp
06.03.10 | Memorial appeals to President Medvedev to end lies and secrecy over Katyń
We believe that clear and unequivocal condemnation of the crime committed by Soviet State bodies following the decision of the leadership, a statement of steps planned to bring the Katyń case out of a dead end could be a turning point in the relations between Russia and Poland
04.03.10 | Memorial: On Portraits of Stalin for the anniversary of Victory Day
The fortitude, courage and valiant deeds of people defending their country in the years of War have been and remain a spiritual legacy for the entire nation, and nobody has the right to make use of this legacy at their will. Any attempt to rewrite this legacy in Stalin's name is nothing more than pillage and blasphemy
03.03.10 | Moscow's Mayor: Posters of Stalin to stay after Victory Day
Yury Luzhkov has told a meeting of the Moscow Government that the posters depicting Joseph Stalin will be posted around Moscow not only for the 65th anniversary of Victory, but at subsequent ceremonial events
03.03.10 | Monument to Polish Professors murdered in 1941
The Lviv City Council has announced that a monument is to be erected to the Lviv professors shot in 1941 on the Vuletsky Hills of the city
01.03.10 | Halya Coynash / Memory to order?
There are historians who do not believe that Holodomor falls under the Convention on Genocide. Whether or not we agree with them is another matter, only in no way, is it a political one. When the issue becomes politicized, we end up with political tasks and the "necessary" court rulings like that of 13 January
25.02.10 | On the proposed amendments to the Law on the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression
While the law is an attempt to readdress injustice with regard to children of victims of repression, KHPG stresses that it is unfair to not acknowledge the spouses of victims to have been victims themselves
25.02.10 | Babi Yar recognized as national historical memorial land
"In consideration of the significance of the State historical memorial reserve 'Babi Yar' in immortalizing the memory of the victims of the Nazi persecution and in order to promote the further development of the reserve', President Yushchenko has signed a decree giving Babi Yar national reserve status.

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