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• Topics / Victims of political repression
Memorial service in Kyiv for the victims of Sandarmokh
02.11.2007
On 2 November, top political figures, former political prisoners, relatives of victims of repression, as well as others wishing to honour innocent victims gathered together in memory of those prisoners of Solovky murdered exactly seventy years ago
2 November – Remembrance Service for the Victims of Sandarmokh
02.11.2007
In memory of the 1111 prisoners of Solovky shot at the Sandarmokh Clearing (Karelia) on 27 October and 2-4 November 1937.
In the Czech Republic Milada Horakovas prosecutor receives an eight-year sentence
02.11.2007
86-year-old Ludmila Brozova Polednova was one of the State prosecutors who condemned the lawyer and democratic politician Milada Horakova to death in 1950 under the communist regime
UNESCO Resolution calls Holodomor a national tragedy
01.11.2007
On 1 November the 34th Session of the UNESCO General Conference, with 193 countries, unanimously passed a Resolution “On Remembrance of victims of Holodomor in Ukraine”.
UNESCO will not declare Holodomor genocide because of Russia
01.11.2007
One of the points on the agenda for the UNESCO conference taking place in Paris is a vote on a resolution declaring Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine to have been an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Ecuador recognizes Holodomor as an act of genocide
31.10.2007
Ecuador has thus become the second Latin American country after Peru whose highest legislative body has recognized Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Children of victims of repression
30.10.2007
“I want people to know that there was such a category as children of the repressed. Everybody knows about repression with regard to poets, artists and prominent people. We need to remind them about the ordinary teachers, simple people and about their children who lost everything, for human memory is short
30 October 2007 – remembering Soviet and todays political prisoners
30.10.2007
While any person remains imprisoned in the countries of the former Soviet Union, this day should be not merely a day of remembrance, but one of active protest
Nearly two thousand victims of Stalins rule reburied at Bykivnya
28.10.2007
On Saturday 27 October, the last remains of 1,998 victims, including 474 Poles, were reburied at the Bykivnya Graves National Memorial Reserve.
Positively despairing
27.10.2007
Putin wishes to focus on “achievements” as do we. The most “positive” achievement, however, will be a society able to reject lies and disinformation, prepared to face and learn from its own history
Presidential reprimand over inadequate preparation for the anniversary of Holodomor
26.10.2007
On Friday 26 October President Yushchenko issued a Decree “On the personal liability of public officials for unsatisfactory preparation of measures to mark the 75th anniversary of Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine.
“Memorial” publishes information on victims of the Stalin repressions
26.10.2007
Clearly very many people in Russia do not see the Terror as something better not mentioned, as certain leaders appear to believe
75 years since the beginning of Holodomor
22.10.2007
On 22 October 1937 the decision was taken in Moscow to send a special commission on grain requisitions, headed by Molotov, to Ukraine. This resulted in all reserves of grain being taken from the Soviet part of Ukraine and led to a purely manmade famine
Ternopil Regional Council calls for Remembrance of the Terror
22.10.2007
The Ternopil Regional Council has issued an appeal to the authorities, civic organizations, political parties, the media, believers of all faiths and all people in the Ternopil region with regard to the seventieth anniversary of the Great Terror of 1937-1938. We would respectfully extend their appeal to all.
France may vote on a law regarding Holodomor
21.10.2007
The French National Assembly has just registered a draft law on recognizing Holodomor [the Famine] of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people
Former prosecutor goes on trial in Prague over her part in a notorious show trial
16.10.2007
In 1950 Ms Brozova-Polednova was the only one of the prosecutors in the trial who called for the death penalty for Milada Horakova and three co-defendants, on trumped up charges
The Legacy of 1937
10.10.2007
The words nineteen thirty seven for many, especially older people, are indelibly linked with the Terror. In the following interview Yevhen Zakharov speaks of its legacy, as well as some problems in Ukraine at the present time
Exhibition about Holodomor opens in Belgium
12.09.2007
The exhibition is in the library of the Loeven Catholic University and presents posters from contemporary Ukrainian artists from the 1960s to 1990s
5 September – Remembrance Day for those who died in Soviet labour camps
05.09.2007
The resolution passed on 5 September to “isolate class enemies in concentration camps” marked the beginning of what was to turn into the GULAG and claim the lives of millions
Working group formed for constructing a Memorial to the Victims of Holodomor
04.09.2007
The aim of the Presidential Decree is to ensure that the Memorial be constructed in Kyiv by 1 October 2008, to mark the 75th anniversary of Holodomor 1932-1933
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