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• Topics / Victims of political repression
“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.
Remains of 150 Victims of Repression reburied at the Lychakivsky Cemetery
27.11.2006
On 25 November, Remembrance Day for Victims of Holodomor and Political Repression, several thousand people took part in a prayer and burial service near the Memorial to the Victims of Communist Repression on Shashkevych Square in Lviv.
President Yushchenko: On Remembrance Day for the Victims of Holodomor
25.11.2006
I hold in my palm an ear of wheat. If I could only offer it to the little boy who died of starvation in 1933 near a field in the village of Kruty in the Chernihiv region. Or to the little girl from the village of Vilenka in the Zhytomyr region; or to the woman in the village of Krasnohirka in the Odessa region; or to the man from the village of Teplivka in the Poltava region.
Ukraine Remembers the Victims of Holodomor
25.11.2006
Throughout Ukraine today events are taking place in memory of the victims of Holodomor and political repression. At 16.00 a Minutes Silence will be observed throughout Ukraine. This will be followed by a nationwide action “Light a candle!”
President Yushchenko inaugurates a Memorial to the Victims of Holodomor in the village of Serhiyivka in the Chernihiv region
25.11.2006
“Such memorials are needed in thousands of Ukrainian villages. It is our shared duty to remember what happened to our grandparents and great grandparents”, Viktor Yushchenko affirmed.
Yushchenko calls for penalties against denial that Holodomor took place
24.11.2006
The Ukrainian President considers discussion as to the need to introduce administrative liability for denial of Holodomor [the Famine] of 1932-1933 to be quite empty.
SBU exhibition of declassified archival documents regarding Holodomor
24.11.2006
On 24 November at 10.00 in “Ukrainian House” an exhibition begins of archival documents of the Ukrainian Security Service about Holodomor 1932-1933 “Memory declassified”.
To the terrible truth of Holodomor
23.11.2006
On 20 November 2006 an exhibition was opened in the Kharkiv History Museum. Entitled “Candle of Sorrow”, it is dedicated to the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Holodomor and Political Repression (25 November)
Verkhovna Rada ignores both Yushchenko and Church leaders
18.11.2006
On Friday 17 November the Verkhovna Rada refused to consider the draft law “On Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine”, submitted by President Yushchenko, giving preference instead to discussion of items under “miscellaneous”
Leaders of Ukraines Churches call on the Verkhovna Rada to declare Holodomor an act of genocide
17.11.2006
"We are convinced that legislative recognition of the artificial famine of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people will be a just assessment of the events of the past, the honouring of the memory of millions of innocent victims and a warning to the present and future generations"
Measures to observe Remembrance Day for the Victims of Holodomor and Political Repression on 25 November
16.11.2006
President Yushchenko believes that it is vital to involve as many people as possible in these measures, as well as in the nationwide action “Light a candle!”
Russian court opens the way for the rehabilitation of the last Russian Tsar and his family
14.11.2006
The court ordered the Prosecutor General to review the application to declare those murdered victims of political repression
Russia does not consider the “so-called Holodomor” in Ukraine to have been genocide
14.11.2006
Why the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not see any grounds for recognizing Holodomor [the Famine] of 1932-1933 to have been genocide on ethnic grounds.
Whom Ukrainians blame for Holodomor
10.11.2006
While more than two thirds of those recently surveyed considered Holodomor [The Famine of 1932-1933] to have been provoked by the actions of the regime, only 44% believed it to be an act of genocide.1
Latvian President refuses to publish the names of former KGB agents
03.11.2006
In her opinion, the list of names of agents without indication of the specific details of their collaboration would endanger the inviolability of private life and those peoples physical safety.
List of (some of) the Victims of Political Terror in the USSR published in the Internet
01.11.2006
“In order to honour the memory of the victims of the repression and to help people learn the history of their families, “Memorial” began work in 1998 on creating a single database including information from Memorial Books already published or ready for publication in various areas of the former USSR". The list now available on the Internet has one and a half million names.
Latvia to make public the names of former KGB agents
30.10.2006
The publication of their names will begin on 1 March 2007, though opinions remain sharply divided on this issue
In Kyiv the remains of 817 victims of the repressions of the 1930s have been laid to rest
29.10.2006
For over half a century the truth about the Bykivnya Graves was concealed. It was only in 1991 that at the place of the burial a memorial stone was placed to the victims of the fascists. And only a few years after that was it written there that this is the last resting place of victims of political repression.
Victims of repression remembered in the Komi Republic
27.10.2006
At a memorial evening three historical documents were presented about the victims of the GULAG, including one about children of those repressed who were also held in the camps
Russia criticizes Ukraines effort to have Holodomor declared genocide
26.10.2006
Russian diplomats consider that the Ukrainian authorities are one-sided in their treatment of the events of the 1930s which, in their view, casts a shadow over Ukrainian – Russian relations
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