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Please support endangered Museum of Soviet Repression
29.06.2014
Perm-36 chronicles Soviet repression and stands on the site of a labour camp built under Stalin in 1943. In the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the country’s harshest facilities for political dissidents. It was here that Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus died on 4 September 1985
Portrait of Stalin appears in Russian-occupied Crimea
23.06.2014
A large portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has appeared near the Memorial to soldiers of the Second World War in Simferopol
Commentary on the Kyiv Court of Appeal ruling from 13 January 2010
16.11.2013
The value of the ruling is illusory. There are legitimate grounds for restarting the investigation; putting together a list of all those repressed for opposing the organization of the artificial famine and not rehabilitated and holding court proceedings aimed at their rehabilitation
Legal classification of Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine and in Kuban as a crime against humanity and genocide
10.11.2013
Updated and expanded version of the study made in 2008 which found that the artificial famine of had all the hallmarks of genocide
Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky honoured for saving Jews during the Holocaust
05.11.2013
While the Anti-Defamation League has honoured the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who died in 1944 with the Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, Ukraine’s Jewish Community have joined the UGCC in creating a Sheptytsky Award to those serving the course of Ukrainian-Jewish reconciliation
Remembering the Victims of Political Repression
20.05.2013
Remembrance services and ceremonies took place in many parts of Ukraine on Sunday for the Victims of political repression
Foul legacy of Stalinism
28.12.2012
The Congress of National Communities of Ukraine has issued a statement regarding the actions by Stalinists on 21 December. At the same time it is reported that the Crimean Tatars involved in obstructing them may be charged with hooliganism.
Stalin Exhibition from Russia destroyed in Simferopol
24.12.2012
A group of Crimean Tatars led by members of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People have destroyed an exhibition glorifying the bloody dictator
More and more Ukrainians call Holodomor 1932-32 genocide
23.11.2012
On the eve of the eightieth anniversary of Holodomor 1932-33, a public survey has found that 59% of Ukrainians believe that Holodomor was genocide. The number denying this has fallen by a third
Sandarmokh 1937
27.10.2012
It is 75 years since the execution in the Sandarmokh Forest Clearing in Karelia of 1,111 prisoners of the Solovky Labour Camp, including 290 Ukrainian writers, poets, scientists and others
US presents declassified Katyń Documents
11.09.2012
While a lot oft information was previously available to historians, there are new details, including information about encrypted reports from US prisoners of war which suggest that the Roosevelt Administration knew that the crime had been committed by the Soviets very early on
Alexander Cherkasov: On the 75th Anniversary of the Great Terror
04.07.2012
On July 2, 1937, the Soviet Politburo sent telegrams authorizing regional party organizations and branches of the secret police, the NKVD, to compile lists of potential enemies of the Soviet regime so they could be rounded up and executed
Ukraine remembers the victims of political repression
21.05.2012
As in previous years on the third Sunday in May, ceremonies were held in a number of Ukrainian cities in remembrance of victims of political repression.
ECHR Judgement on investigation into Katyń massacre
16.04.2012
The European Court of Human Rights has found that Russia violated Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman treatment) and its obligation to cooperate with the Court under Article 38 with respect to the investigation into the 1940 Katyń massacre of Polish officers and others
Communist Head of Ukraine’s Archives would remove access to half of them
30.01.2012
Head of Ukraine’s State Archive, Olha Ginzburg from the Communist Party has said that she would like to close half Ukraine’s archives. She was responding to a question about introducing European norms regarding archival openness
Remembering the Victims of Holodomor 1932-1933
26.11.2011
Myroslav Marynovych: “We honour the victims of Holodomor only when we do not allow ourselves to create hell in our country”
Historians fear Moscow wants to control all post-Soviet archives
11.11.2011
Historians are concerned at news of an agreement which binds post-Soviet countries to agree policy on declassifying Soviet archives, and fear that some material could be classified again.
Tyurma na Lonskoho Museum no longer under Security Service
21.10.2011
The National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes “Tyurma na Lonskoho” in Lviv and its Director, Ruslan Zabily have received unwanted attention from the SBU who accused Zabily of divulging state secrets over historical archive material
Babi Yar 29 – 30 September 1941
29.09.2011
Seventy years ago today the killing began of around 35 thousand Jewish men, women and children at Babi Yar, a ravine then on the outskirts of Kyiv
70 Years since Babi Yar the Holocaust still has a Lesson to teach
27.09.2011
As the 70th anniversary approaches of the murder of 33,000 Jewish men, women and children at Babi Yar approaches, the US Ambassador reflects on the exhibition Shoah by Bullets, which is demonstrated for the first time in Ukraine
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