Current Russia

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, OVD Info 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 Project news

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December 26, 2024

Putin's cage was on display at Republic Square

November 12, 2024

In November, we celebrate the Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Czech Republic. And it was during these days t...

October 11, 2024

September 17, 2024

July 09, 2024

April 29, 2024

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...

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....

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...