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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: 70 years of pain and lies
23.08.2009
70 years ago, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression pact, and a secret protocol which divided Poland and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence
Andrushivka: Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust
21.08.2009
A Memorial has been erected in the town of Andrushivka (Zhytomyr region) in memory of the 252 Jewish women and 25 children shot by the Nazis on 19 August 1941
Re-thinking on the past no standard task for the Security Service
07.08.2009
German historian Gerhard Simon points out that the situation in Ukraine is unique because it is the security service itself that is engaged in educational activity about the crimes of the past.
In Memory of the Victims of the Great Terror
05.08.2009
5 August 1937 marked the beginning of the “mass NKVD operations” which over sixteen months in 1937-1938 resulted in the arrest of approximately 1.7 million people and more than 700 thousand execuitons.
Remembrance Stone to mark the Holocaust of the Roma
03.08.2009
A symbolic stone was laid yesterday at Babi Yar in Kyiv to mark International Remembrance Day of the Roma Victims of the Pharraimos (Holocaust).
Shouting down history
24.07.2009
On what Russians obliquely term “historical policy”, on a war supposedly defensive but to be waged on foreign territory and against historians and journalists, and on thoughts which no propagandist din will deafen
«The whole truth has yet to be told about these crimes”
12.07.2009
Statement from Memorial with regard to the reaction by Russias Council of the Federation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolution “Divided Europe Reunited
Russias parliament claims West wants to disrupt dialogue with Russia
08.07.2009
A joint statement from the Council of the Federation and the State Duma slams the Resolution of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly which calls for 23 August to be a day of remembrance for the victims of Stalinism and Nazism
OSCE Resolution: Divided Europe Reunited
06.07.2009
The Resolution notes that in the 20th century, European countries experienced two major totalitarian regimes, the Nazi and the Stalinist, which brought along genocide, violations of human rights and freedoms, war crimes and crimes against humanity
Resolution on Stalin riles Russia
06.07.2009
Russian delegates walked out of an OSCE session in Vilnius after it voted for a remembrance day for the victims of both Nazism and Stalinism.
Testimony of victims of repression must remain
10.06.2009
The testimony of prisoners and witnesses of occupying regimes in Western Ukraine are to be documented with the videoed interviews taken of former prisoners being later used in education.
Where are the graves?
25.05.2009
Do they really hope in the Kremlin that such a law will force everybody to tremble and avoid “indelicate” facts? As if anyone in their right mind would deny the crucial role placed by the USSR in the victory, however the scope of this law is much broader
SBU publishes list of some of the Victims of the Terror buried at Bykivnya
15.05.2009
The SBU [Security Service] has made public a list with 14,191 names of those whose last earthly remains lie buried in the Bykivnya Forest just outside Kyiv
Russian “Justice” still unable to honour the Victims of Katyń
08.05.2009
A Moscow court has again upheld the Military Prosecutors refusal to consider applications to rehabilitate victims of this terrible crime. There remains one final avenue before Memorial is forced to turn to Strasbourg
Unqualified evil and politics
05.05.2009
Ask people in any former Soviet republic whether the Holocaust was unqualified evil, few will say no. So why dont they ask? Why with depressing regularity do we hear the same shouting about “a revival of Nazism”, along with appalling distortions of the truth?
Remembrance key to reconciliation
04.04.2009
Members of the European Parliament have called on European governments to establish 23 August as a Europe-wide Remembrance Day for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes
Perpetrators of Holodomor named
19.03.2009
Ukraines Security Service [SBU] has made public an updated list based on its archival material of those directly involved in organizing and carrying out Holodomor
Russia «Holodomor was not genocide»
26.02.2009
Since the event in Moscow was for the world medias benefit, here is the report from Associated Press which has since been widely reported in the Ukrainian media
Mass murder of Czechoslovakians during Terror in the Zhytomyr region
25.02.2009
Czech historian Mechislav Borak has found documents indicating that in 1937-1938 the Soviet punitive bodies executed more than 400 Czechs and Slovaks
Baffled as to why Russia doesnt open up the archives on Holodomor
16.02.2009
The Ukrainian Institute for National Remembrance has issued a statement saying that it does not understand why the Russian State Archives are refusing to publish documents relating to the events of 1932-1933 in Ukraine
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