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An online exhibition on the resistance to the Soviet regime in Estonia in 1940–1991 now available

18. August 2021

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory opened a new e-exhibition on the history of anti-Soviet resistance, which is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Estonia’s restoration of independence. The

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Tiananmen Square Protest Leader: 1989 Massacre Left an Anti-Democratic “Legacy of Fear”

04. June 2021

In a 2019 article commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, human rights advocate and former protest leader Wang Dan reflects on the democratic movement and its

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Moscow Authorities Prohibit Sakharov Commemorative Exhibition

24. May 2021

Moscow city authorities have prevented the Moscow Sakharov Center from holding an exhibition celebrating the life of Andrei Sakharov, a famous Soviet dissident. The exhibition was due to open on May

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Thirty-Five Years On, Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Chernobyl Disaster Persist

07. May 2021

The explosion of a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, was an unprecedented ecological and humanitarian disaster. Though some aspects of the

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Nizhny Novgorod Communists open a Stalin Centre

23. April 2021

On 8 May, members of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) will lay the foundation of Stalin Centre, which according to the founders will be the largest in

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Polish Historian: The truth about the Katyn Massacres was concealed for almost half a century

13. April 2021

After German officials announced that they had uncovered the corpses of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest in 1943, the Soviet Union denied its involvement and proceeded to develop an intricate

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Winning design of Patarei Prison’s Victims of Communism Museum announced

05. April 2021

The International Memorial Museum for the Victims of Communism in Patarei Prison (Tallinn, Estonia) will be designed by Motor and KOKO architects . This was the result of a public procurement carried

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PEMC: Czech Ministry of Justice awards compensation to daughter of East German refugee killed on the border of the Iron Curtain in 1977

01. March 2021

For the first time in history, the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic awarded compensation for the death of an East German refugee on the Czechoslovak border in 1977. Gerhard Schmidt, his wife,

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Russia Plans to Outlaw Comparisons Between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

28. January 2021

Russia plans to unveil legislation that would ban public comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany by July 2021. According to a statement issued by the Kremlin on 23 January, Russian