Current Russia and Memorial

We monitor and draw attention to current events in Russia, anti-war protests and distortions of the Soviet past used to defend an aggressive war. We help our colleagues from Russian memory and human rights institutions (for example Memorial or the original Perm-36 museum) who find themselves in danger from Putin's regime.

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Memorial

We work closely with the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Memorial, a Russian association, which we are helping to maintain operations after many of its associates were forced to leave Russia following the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine. We are personally and administratively connected with the Czech branch of Memorial. Thanks to this, we bring to the Czech environment a number of debates with members of the Memorial, the topic of the abuse of the Soviet repressive history by the current regime, overviews of anti-war protests in Russia, but also stories of Ukrainian victims of the ongoing war. We follow the cases of current political prisoners (among them are Memorial members Yuriy Dmitriev and Oleg Orlov) and also organize letter-writing workshops for these prisoners.

You can find more about all this activity on the website of the Czech Memorial branch.

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Perm-36

We have been cooperating for a long time with the founders of the Perm-36 museum, which was the only museum in Russia on the site of the former Gulag camp and later a prison for Soviet dissidents. In 2014, the Russian authorities took the museum away from its founders (we initiated a letter of protest from Czech institutions), removed the exhibition about dissidents from Ukraine and the Baltics, and began to celebrate the work of the Gulag guards. Since then, we have been in contact with the original founders of the museum, we helped them create the virtual form of the Perm-36 museum and also brought several stories thanks to them:

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UAuction

On the first anniversary of the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine in February 2023, we organized a charity auction of works of art created by Russian authors, the proceeds of which went to help Ukraine. We collected a total of CZK 123,500. The artworks were originally provided by their authors for the exhibition Sandarmoch - where trees have faces.

Read more about the auction HERE

Current Russia and MemorialProject news

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July 09, 2024

“Memory of Repression”: A new project to search for data on Soviet terror

January 30, 2024

A search system named "Memory of Repression" has been launched at www.memsearch.org, w...

The Magnificent One – Nikolai Braun and his poems against the invasion of 1968

August 25, 2023

This is the story of a Russian who faced Soviet tanks alone, being even lonelier than the globally renowned eight brave prote...

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August 24, 2023

We have assisted with the launch of the virtual Perm-36 labour camp museum

July 25, 2023

The unique Perm-36 Museum, created from the former GULAG camp for Soviet dissidents, has an unexpected connection to the Czec...

We have raised 123 500 CZK for Ukraine

February 22, 2023

More than 30 works of art commemorating the Sandarmokh execution grounds dating back to the Stalin terror era will aid Ukrain...

The war in Ukraine is a tragedy for the present, the future and the past

March 07, 2022

Putin's war in Ukraine is a huge tragedy for the present, the future and the past. Let us help everyone where we can, refugee...

Let's stop the liquidation of the Memorial Association!

November 12, 2021

We join the call to support the Russian Memorial Association, which is in danger of liquidation. You can also sign the petiti...

Exhibition and conference on the centenary of the birth of Andrei Sakharov

May 11, 2021

Czech branch of Memorial and Gulag.cz together with Russian and Czech partners will host two commemorative events dedicated t...

We support imprisoned historian Y. Dmitriev

October 01, 2020

A joint statement by Post Bellum (a project of the Memory of Nation), Gulag.cz, Czech branch of Memorial and Političtí vězni....

Russia's Soviet Legacy: Discussion with Memorial Society

February 14, 2020

Memorial in Moscow, in the latest series of court proceedings, was fined over five million rubles for alleged failure to incl...

Semyon Vilensky, a tireless popularizer and publisher of Gulag literature, died

April 25, 2016

V sobotu 23. dubna v Moskvě zemřel spisovatel a básník Semjon Vilenskij, předseda ...

We are linking databases of Soviet repression with Memorial Society

March 08, 2016

Creating a unified database of Soviet repressions - this was the theme of a three-day workshop that we organized in Prague in...

Stop liquidation of an authentic museum Perm-36. An open letter from Czech institutions to the governor of Perm region Viktor Basargin

August 10, 2014

We sent an open letter to the governor of Perm region Viktor Basargin. The letter was joined by other Czech institutions - th...