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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...