We cooperate with many organisations from the Czech Republic and abroad, including Ukraine. We also assist, wherever possible, our colleagues from independent Russian historical and human rights organizations that are under threat in contemporary Russia.
Memorial, OVD Info
We work closely with the Memorial Association, a historical and human rights organization from Russia which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. We are helping this organisation to stay active after many of its members were forced to leave Russia following the start of the Russia's open war against Ukraine. We are linked to Memorial's Czech office both personally and administratively. Thanks to this, we organize a number of debates with Memorial members in Czechia.
In collaboration with Memorial, we also publish information about political prisoners in modern Russia and the anti-war protests still taking place across the country.
We also cooperate with other organizations and initiatives that raise awareness of the problem of political prisoners in Russia, such as the human rights organization OVD Info or the initiative free120pzk seeking the release of seriously ill political prisoners.
Thanks to our cooperation with Memorial, we have developed a unique search engine that allows users to search information in twenty databases dedicated to the topic of Soviet repressions.
Kharkiv Human Rights Group
In Ukraine, we cooperate with the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. In 2023-2024, together with partners from several Memorial offices in Europe, we participated in the international project “Voices of War dedicated to the documentation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Stories of specific people were collected and processed by our colleagues from the Kharkiv Human Rights Group; in Czech, they are available on our YouTube channel.
Perm-36
For a long time, we have been working with the founders of the Perm-36 Museum, which was the only museum in Russia on the site of a 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 on dissidents from Ukraine and the Baltics, and began to glorify the work of the guards in Gulags. Since then, we have been in contact with the original founders of the museum, we helped them to create the virtual verison of their museum, and we have also written several articles thanks to them:
Our partners in the Czech Republic
Within the Czech Republic, we cooperate with a number of institutions such as the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno, the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague, the Faculty of Arts at Palacky University in Olomouc, the Memory of Nations, the Nesehnutí movement, and the Slunovrat festival in Opava. We are supported by Alza.cz, the European programmes Erasmus +, Horizon and the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
