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China Makes It a Crime to Mock Country's Heroes

29. November 2021

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made it a crime to mock national heroes and historical communist party figures. An offender could face up to three years in prison, The New York Times reported. China has

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Platform of European Memory and Conscience calls on the EU to protect imperilled Russian human rights group Memorial

17. November 2021

The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC), which brings together 62 institutions and organisations from 20 countries, dealing with Europe’s 20th century totalitarian past, calls on the

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Former GULAG city of Vorkuta receives honorary title of “City of Labour Valour”

22. October 2021

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has recently signed a legislation granting twelve new cities the honorary title of City of Labor Valour. Among them was the city of Vorkuta, which

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Hungarian Historian Cautions Against Repeating the Arguments that Stalin Himself Crafted in His Own Defence

25. August 2021

In a recent article published with the National University of Public Services in Budapest, Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Miklós Mitrovits has suggested that the Soviet Union

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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