Thirty years ago, the world lived through one of the most optimistic moments of the 20th century. Communism—and the Soviet Union with it—had collapsed, the Cold War had come to an end, and democracy was on the rise around the globe. We are now in probably the grimmest moment since the start of the 21st…
On 24 February 2022, in clear violation of international law and the established world order, the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, initiated a full-scale war against Ukraine. Russian artillery and warplanes have been shelling and bombarding numerous cities and towns throughout Ukraine. Launching attacks from several directions from the territories of the Russian…
Russian authorities started a campaign to close Memorial, the country’s leading independent civil society group that has contributed immensely to the preservation of historical memory in the Soviet Union and Russia. The Kremlin’s vision of the past is becoming increasingly ideologised. This applies especially to the notion of victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, which…
